Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

Alan Cox
2001-01-31T18:02:41Z

> No. ECN is essential to the continued stability of the Internet. Without
> probabilistic queuing (i.e. RED) and ECN the Internet will continue to have
> retransmit synchronization and once congested stay congested until people get
> frustrated and give it up for a little bit.

Arguably so. In theory a vindictive probabilistic queueing is sufficient
(do RED but then drop -every- frame from the same route as the packet chosen
from the queue)