[82273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: London incidents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Mon Jul 11 09:24:40 2005
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:21:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20050711131230.A4C613BFE8D@berkshire.machshav.com> (Steven M.
Bellovin's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:12:30 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> In message <87mzotpkm7.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>, "Robert E.Seastrom" writes:
>>Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> writes:
>>
>>> There were lower levels of priority that you could also use,
>>> but "flash" was the top one that I heard about.
>>
>>The four buttons on the "1633" row of an AUTOVON telephone are labeled
>>P, I, F, and FO for Priority, Immediate, Flash, and Flash-Override.
>>The fifth (normal) level is of course routine, with no priority code
>>attached.
>
> And those levels appear as the TOS bits in RFC 791....
Yes, but nobody ever wrote a song about the TOS bits in Internet
Protocol (this song dates to 1980):
http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00182.html
---Rob
