On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:13:59PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 06:16 PM 10/11/01 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>
> >If the forwarding path is maxed out, then it is the application layer's
> >responsibility to back off (think TCP).
>
> Is it better for the networking layer to deal with this (potentially
> introducing some latency) as opposed to letting the application ?
I think Mike probably meant the transport layer, not application,
since he was talking about TCP. The transport layer is the right place
to do this.
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