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

[Tony Li]

On Aug 31, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:

> 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?


Yes, but that’s maximum bandwidth and propagation delay, not queueing delay and folks don’t actually enable that part of the metric anyway.  Nothing dynamic here.

Oh, and the last poor soul who did enable all of the dynamic features of (E)IGRP ended up with a violently unstable network.

Tony