On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:31:42PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> 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.
Oops.
s/Mike/Archie/
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