Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

Thu Aug 16 16:53:16 UTC 2007

> Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few
> ASN hops upstream.  I view this as similar to some backbones offering
> a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not 
> transitive. This is the Oh Crap, Don't Blackhole Everything but Slow 
> Stuff Down BGP community.

and the two hops upstream but not the source router spools the packets
to the hard drive?

randy