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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
Dick St.Peters <[email protected]> wrote: >> One dirty little secret is that most >> phone calls and videoconferences ram their way past data transmissions >> by using a bully of a communications method called UDP. Unlike the more >> polite Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, which drops back >> when it detects congestion, UDP continues at full speed, elbowing >> ahead of TCP traffic. >Sigh, I guess you need to have part of your network shut down by the >above-described effect to appreciate just how unusually accurate a >portrayal that description is. ping -f does it much better. UDP is not bad per se. Broken applications are. --vadim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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