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Subject: [Bloat] Really really big buffers
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> Right  now buffers routinely hold 10+ seconds worth of traffic (and Dave T
> showed the  airline system buffering 10+ MINUTES of traffic)

I've seen similar unreasonable delays.  I think that's a bug in some firmware.

My straw man is that something like a DSL link goes down and the router/modem 
doesn't flush its queue.  A while later, the box at the other end finishes 
rebooting, the link comes back up, and the packet gets sent on its way.


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