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Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Thu Aug 16 20:28:25 2007

Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:57:26 +0100
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <46C480FC.4010202@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On 8/16/07, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> 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? (Which
brings us to the user trust thing.)

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On 8/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Randy Bush</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:randy@psg.com">randy@psg.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
&gt; Yeah, that&#39;s why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few<br>&gt; ASN hops upstream.&nbsp;&nbsp;I view this as similar to some backbones offering<br>&gt; a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not
<br>&gt; transitive. This is the Oh Crap, Don&#39;t Blackhole Everything but Slow<br>&gt; Stuff Down BGP community.<br><br>and the two hops upstream but not the source router spools the packets<br>to the hard drive?</blockquote>
<div><br>Ideally you&#39;d want to influence the endpoint protocol stack, right? (Which brings us to the user trust thing.)<br></div><br></div><br>

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