[e2e] Is RED dead?

Armando L. Caro, Jr. acaro at bbn.com
Thu Oct 13 13:22:04 PDT 2005


John Kristoff wrote:

> I told a couple folks I would follow up with what I heard and learned
> off list.  I heard from one person that thought RED.  Off list I heard
> that a couple of big providers may use it when links become congested,
> and that they will enable it if you ask, but do not by default.
                               ^^^^^^^^^^
Who exactly is "you"? I imagine you'd have to be a fairly big customer
to get that kind of response from a big provider. I'm sure that if *I*
even tried to ask *my* provider to turn on RED, I wouldn't even be able
to reach someone who understood what I was asking for.

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Armando
www.armandocaro.net


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