[98860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Aug 21 13:45:44 2007
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:34:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480708211024q209169afue845f831262a4dff@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> This is what I eventually upshot..
>
> http://www.telco2.net/blog/2007/08/variable_speed_limits_for_the.html
You wrote in your blog:
> "The problem is that if there is a major problem, very large numbers of
> users applications will all try to resend; generating a packet storm and
> creating even more congestion."
Do you have any data/facts to back up this statement? I'd be very
interested to hear them, as I have heard this statement a few times before
but it's a contradiction to the way I understand things to work.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
