[ih] Why did congestion happen at all? Re: why did CC happen at all?

[Miles Fidelman]

Point taken.

Thanks,

Miles

John Day wrote:
> Time scales are very different.  Congestion could come and go (or 
> become crippling) before today's routing protocols reacted.
>
> At 4:20 PM -0400 8/31/14, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> Tony Li wrote:
>>> On Aug 31, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Miles Fidelman 
>>> <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Packets are not sent off willy nilly in all directions - they're 
>>>> sent in the directions indicated by routing tables that are updated 
>>>> based on, among other things, resource congestion around the net.
>>>
>>> Sorry, no. Routing protocols that react to congestion are still a 
>>> research topic.
>>>
>>
>> Last time I looked, bandwidth and delay were part of the metrics used 
>> in at least some routing tables (e.g.,  Cisco EGIRP) - which are at 
>> least indirect measures of congestion.  Or am I wrong here?
>>
>> Miles
>>
>>
>> -- 
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