[Bloat] Network computing article on bloat

Wesley Eddy wes at mti-systems.com
Tue Apr 26 14:32:58 EDT 2011


On 4/26/2011 2:17 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> "Big Buffers Bad. Small Buffers Good."
>
> "*Some* packet loss is essential for the correct operation of the Internet"
>
> are two of the memes I try to propagate, in their simplicity. Even
> then there are so many qualifiers to both of those that the core
> message gets lost.


The second one is actually backwards; it should be "the Internet can
operate correctly with some packet loss".

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Wes Eddy
MTI Systems



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