Re: Melting the Internet?

Alan Larson (larson@net.com)
Thu, 4 May 95 11:20:09 PDT

> Machines A + B connected via 10mbps ethernet.
> Machines B + C connected via Compressed Slip.

One must remember that CSLIP does not compress UDP headers.

This was an extreme case of large buffering on machine B. Most
real cases would have probably dropped most of the packets from
the fast blast over the ethernet.

Alan