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Re: Selfish routing
- From: alex
- Date: Sat Apr 26 15:45:59 2003
>
> > > Someone who built a rather good network used to say something along the
> > > lines of "You are confused. QoS does not stand for Quality of Service. It
> > > stands for Quantity of Service. What it means is that you don't have enough
> > > capacity so you drop packets on the floor of those who pay you less money
> > > before dropping on the floor packets of those who pay you more. At the end,
> > > you still drop packets." Having capacity *always* makes a network better.
>
> In general I agree here. Although its not always practical to do the necessary
> upgrades, especially in last mile where costs may be prohibitive.
If this is the last mile which is the problem, it will *always* be a problem
no matter if one talks about primary or secondary path.
Alex
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