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Re: Packet Loss

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Thu Dec 14 16:25:41 2000 
In message <[email protected]>, [email protected]
vt.edu writes:
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>On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:21:42 PST, Roeland Meyer <[email protected]>  said:
>> > From: Scott Bradner [mailto:[email protected]]
>> > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:52 AM
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>> > > Can we call on the Avian Carrier RFC here?  Packet Loss may 
>> > take on a whole
>> > > new meaning here...
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>At first reading, I saw 'Avian Carrier KFC'.  
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>> Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a mini-van filled with DLT tapes, on
>> the freeway at 65 mph.
>> 	- updated to current - rmeyer - original author unknown
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>Andy Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", if I remember correctly.

*Much* older -- I first heard it in 1969, and I don't think it was 
orginal then...

		--Steve Bellovin