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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: When is a link saturated?
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Date: 8 Feb 91 14:10:18 GMT
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    I have been trying to interest people in using the Precedence field
    where appropriate, as well as TOS.

Note that current production PC/TCP allows the setting of the Precedence
field on a per-PC basis (The API also allows it on a per-connection
basis, but none of our applications set it).  A separate configuration
item allows the user to enable Precedence checking as defined in the Mil
Std for TCP (1776?), so you can use it for either router traffic
identification, or to let a general override the ranks, as it was
originally designed to.  

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