Selfish routing

Sat Apr 26 19:49:43 UTC 2003

> 
> > > Someone who built a rather good network used to say something along the
> > > lines of "You are confused. QoS does not stand for Quality of Service. It
> > > stands for Quantity of Service. What it means is that you don't have enough
> > > capacity so you drop packets on the floor of those who pay you less money
> > > before dropping on the floor packets of those who pay you more. At the end,
> > > you still drop packets." Having capacity *always* makes a network better.
> 
> In general I agree here. Although its not always practical to do the necessary 
> upgrades, especially in last mile where costs may be prohibitive.

If this is the last mile which is the problem, it will *always* be a problem
no matter if one talks about primary or secondary path.

Alex