> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 18:00:20 -0700
> From: savage@cs.washington.edu
> To: tom@emigrant, syn@cs
> Subject: RE: tomorrow's meeting
>
> I'd like to suggest the following for small simulations (some easy, some
> harder):
>
> 5) ACK priority. Dropping other traffic in defference to ACKs.
> What effect does this have on congested link? Interplay with ECN?
>
> 6) SYN priority (same as ACK)... how does this effect
Either one. Question: What does "priority" precisely mean? Does that
mean that, if I, as bastard@inter.net start sending a pure stream of acks
through your router, you stop transferring any other data? When I see
those two statements, I think of "syn flood."
In general, I'm curious as to how priority schemes like this hold up in an
non-altruistic network.
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"One of these days, I'm going to implement a new method of controlling
network flow: Selective Negative Acknowledgements -- If for no other
reason than the opportunity write about SNAKs."