Re: PILC: prioritization

From: Phil Karn (karn@homer.ka9q.ampr.org)
Date: Thu Jan 21 1999 - 03:10:41 EST


    Non-transitive reachability.

I'm not sure I understand this one. Isn't this a problem that can be
solved with routing, either in the subnet or at the Internet layer?

    Links that are slow/expensive/difficult to establish.
    Links that are expensive/difficult to keep up.

These are probably worth bumping up in priority simply because they're
so common. Dialup PPP and ISDN are like this, as is packet data over
IS-95 CDMA digital cellular. The main TCP-level mitigation technique
is to disable keepalives. Extensive application-layer caching may
help minimize the need to bring up the link when it's idle.

Phil



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