[98744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Aug 16 15:06:34 2007
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:00:01 -1000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
CC: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480708160957q80f4bc4obe815161275b3fba@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Alexander Harrowell wrote:
>> Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few
>> ASN hops upstream. I view this as similar to some backbones offering
>> a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not
>> transitive. This is the Oh Crap, Don't Blackhole Everything but Slow
>> Stuff Down BGP community.
> and the two hops upstream but not the source router spools the packets
> to the hard drive?
> Ideally you'd want to influence the endpoint protocol stack, right?
ECN
sally floyd ain't stoopid
