[ih] UDP Length Field?

[Steve Crocker]

Heh.  I managed to indirectly crash the Arpanet in early 1972 by advising
the folks at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City to aim for maximum throughput in
an ad hoc file transfer protocol by using eight connections in parallel to
defeat the flow control in the IMP system.  I hadn't expected or intended
the Arpanet would crash, but it definitely did.  I was told it only took
four seconds.

Steve


On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:11 PM Noel Chiappa via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>     > From: Jack Haverty
>
>     > the ARPANET managers (at DCA and BBN) were extremely reluctant to
> permit
>     > hosts (e.g., gateways) to use that mode, for fear that the
> uncontrolled
>     > traffic would crash the ARPANET.
>
> The irony, of course, is that some years afterward, we managed to crash the
> ARPANET _without_ use of type 3 packets. So Van then had to invent TCP
> congestion control...
>
>            Noel
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