[e2e] Historical question: Link layer flow control / silent discard

l.wood@surrey.ac.uk l.wood at surrey.ac.uk
Sat May 25 05:46:05 PDT 2013


Bob Brden said:
> Sending a packet when there is an overload must be a
> losing strategy!

(cough) ECN (cough)

which is basically source quench, and about as useful

Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/

as a chocolate teapot.





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