Historical question: Link layer flow control / silent discard
Detlef Bosau <[email protected]>
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O.k., perhaps this is for all readers with grey hair (if there is still
hair at all....) and grey beards ;-)
When I read the original catenet work by Cerf, the Catenet employed link
layer flow control.
To my understanding, this was abandoned when the ARPAnet turned into the
Internet (in 1981?). After this change, the link layer flow control was
replaced by a "silent discard" of packets which cannot be accepted for
delivery.
Is this correct?
What was the reason for this decision and have there been any
alternative approaches?
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