Mitchell, > I think we/you are looking at two different problems: > 1) a hop count of 1 or maybe two between the two end points 2) and the > multiple / many hop count between the two end points.
IS-IS adjacencies are always between immediate L3 neighbors, ignoring strange things like tunneling. > Thus, I think that your issue is mostly the #2 problem > and the problem that most CA algorithms IMO always try to increase capacity > and thus at some point must exceed capacity. TCP must find a range of > capacity per flow (assuming a consistent a number of packets per sec). > However, what is maybe missed (I missed it in the document) is the ability > not to overshoot the TCP threshold point and trigger multiple initial > congestion events in/exiting the slow-start phase. Modern router designs have interface bandwidths from 10-400Gb/s. The CPU would be hard pressed to supply 1Gb/s, therefore for most of the circumstances that we’re concerned about, the link capacity is never the issue. Tony _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list Lsr@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr