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Re: [ledbat] pointer to Lars' work on packet preemption issues in backgrounding

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Thu, 20 November 2008 20:53 UTC

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Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2008, at 14:21 , Joe Touch wrote:
> 
>> routers don't preempt packets
> 
> RFC 2686
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2t/12_2t13/feature/guide/ftmmlppp.html
> 
> 
> Of course, this is irrelevant in the home.
> (Just wanted to fix the overgeneralization.)
> 
> Gruesse, Carsten

Thanks - Dave pointed that out to me as well. I was not aware of it;
it's certainly still reasonable that "most routers" don't support
preemption.

Ditto for hosts.

Joe
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