Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 13:02:17 EST


> No. ECN is essential to the continued stability of the Internet. Without
> probabilistic queuing (i.e. RED) and ECN the Internet will continue to have
> retransmit synchronization and once congested stay congested until people get
> frustrated and give it up for a little bit.

Arguably so. In theory a vindictive probabilistic queueing is sufficient
(do RED but then drop -every- frame from the same route as the packet chosen
 from the queue)
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