John D. Alleyn-Day wrote:

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> In the past few weeks I have had occasion to communicate from California
> (Bay Area) to England and vice versa over the Internet.  From about 8:00
> a.m. until some time in the afternoon, Pacific Time, as far as I am
> concerned, the Internet has collapsed.  A 10cps teletype with a noisy
> connection would be faster with fewer disconnects!
>
> Did anyone read about the recent study that found that 90% of the traffic
> on the Net was due to Cisco routers looking for connections!  My source was
> the EE Times, but I've thrown away that copy.
>
> John D. Alleyn-Day
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The article John refers to can be found at http://www.techweb.com.
Enter "cisco acknowledges" (no quotes) in the "Search Archives" field at
the upper left of the page.  The full title of the article is "Cisco
acknowledges, fixes one problem -- StudY:router flaws jamming Net
traffic".  It appeared in the Jan. 6, 1997 issue of EE Times.

Steve Barrett

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