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From: tsuchiya@gateway.mitre.ORG (Paul Tsuchiya)
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Subject: errata (DECBIT)
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Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 08:51:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  9 08:51:48 1987
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This from Charles Hedrick, who was kind enough to not broadcast it:


> Are you sure?  As I recall, the DEC bit is set by any router when the
> queue has more than one item in it.  I didn't think the RTT was involved.
> It's main disadvantage seemed to be that its resolution wasn't very good,
> so a large number of simultaneous connections could confuse it.


Right you are.  I don't know how the idea of RTT got into my head.
(Actually I do, but I don't want to say).

So much for my spiffy job offer from DEC.  How about a lawsuit instead.


	Paul Tsuchiya		tsuchiya@gateway.mitre.org
	The MITRE Corp.		tsuchiya@mitre-gateway.arpa