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[Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>]

At 10:21 AM 10/26/95, Juha Heinanen wrote:
>this is what i have never understod about rsvp.  how can a host sitting
>on a shared media, like ethernet, make any reservation whatsoever.  so
>isn't it a requirement for rsvp to work that the hosts are directly
>connected to such a link layer network, eg. atm, that supports
>reservation requests?  what does it help if all the routers in the whole
>internet are rsvp capable if the last hop isn't?

well, we're discussing a "mother may I" protocol extension to RSVP that
would limit not only what the device on the shared medium does but what
reservations are made in toto on the medium. That's not a current goal -
the RSVP system right now guarantees what *it* will do, not what a queuing
system out of its control will do.

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