Re: source-quench I-D

Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> Fri, 31 December 2010 07:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: source-quench I-D
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On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:43 AM, Gorry Fairhurst wrote:

> IMHO, the following statement should with hindsight have been written as "SHOULD" rather than "MAY":
> "A router MAY ignore any ICMP Source Quench messages it receives."

IMHO, any IP system SHOULD ignore a source quench that it receives.