On 11/17/2011 8:58 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Please see the reader comment by Oor Nonny-Muss on this story to understand its
relevance to the IETF.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/16/salad_leaf_turns_out_to_be_dead_bird/
The original IETF plenary presentation on the implementation and testing of the
avian carrier IP link did note that this mechanism was extremely good at testing
the quality of and implementations TCP retransmission code.
So this example of packet loss well might apply.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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