Re- TCP broadcast storm

Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com> Thu, 11 November 1993 05:23 UTC

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 21:17:02 -0800
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From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
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To: postel@isi.edu
Cc: braden@isi.edu, ietf-hosts@isi.edu, TCP-Group@ucsd.edu, MGauthier@iit.nrc.ca
In-Reply-To: Jon Postel's message of Mon, 8 Nov 1993 08:43:10 -0800 <199311081643.AA24710@zephyr.isi.edu>
Subject: Re- TCP broadcast storm

This confusion between the Internet itself and the hosts attached to
it continues. Last week, during the Houston IETF, the New York Times
carried an article titled "Traffic Jams on the Information Highway"
(or words to that effect, this is from memory). The article was
clearly about the extreme loads that certain popular *server machines*
on the net have been experiencing, but the title metaphor obviously
gives the (mis)impression that the NSF backbone communication links are
overloaded. As far as I have been able to observe, they are not.

Phil