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> > we can increase fairness using smart queuing and other technology tricks > > If that can be and is done, it's fine with me, but will it be done in > time? My growth is already being hindered by people being unable to > get through the net's core to sites they want to reach. They leave > the net, disillusioned. It's hard to imagine what things will be like > when the looming UDP-based-multi-media explosion is added to this. Since I use programmable routers, I plan to reprogram them such that when an interface output queue is full or getting full, and it's time to do Van's trick of "pick a number from 1 to N+1 and destroy that packet", the chance of a UDP getting blasted will be higher than for a TCP. This is predicated on (1) TCP is mostly well behaved, except when it comes form a Netscape browser opening too many (more than one) simultaneous TCP connection to the same destination; (2) UDP apps I care about, like DNS, will do reasonable things like fallback and timeout and retry; and (3) it is OK to violate the layering if it makes your network stop melting. If you think this would be a useful feature, ask Cisco to make it part of SPD. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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