Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Randy Bush wrote:
> Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> > > Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few
> > > ASN hops upstream.  I view this as similar to some backbones offering
> > > a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not
> > > transitive. This is the Oh Crap, Don't Blackhole Everything but Slow
> > > Stuff Down BGP community.
> > and the two hops upstream but not the source router spools the packets
> > to the hard drive?
> > Ideally you'd want to influence the endpoint protocol stack, right?
>
> ECN
>
> sally floyd ain't stoopid

ECN doesn't affect the initial SYN packets.

I agree, sally floyd ain't stoopid.