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"Steven M. Bellovin" <[email protected]> writes: > In message <[email protected]>, "Robert E.Seastrom" writes: >>Brad Knowles <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> There were lower levels of priority that you could also use, >>> but "flash" was the top one that I heard about. >> >>The four buttons on the "1633" row of an AUTOVON telephone are labeled >>P, I, F, and FO for Priority, Immediate, Flash, and Flash-Override. >>The fifth (normal) level is of course routine, with no priority code >>attached. > > And those levels appear as the TOS bits in RFC 791.... Yes, but nobody ever wrote a song about the TOS bits in Internet Protocol (this song dates to 1980): http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00182.html ---Rob
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