11 Jul
2005
11 Jul
'05
9:21 a.m.
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
In message <87mzotpkm7.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>, "Robert E.Seastrom" writes:
Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> writes:
There were lower levels of priority that you could also use, but "flash" was the top one that I heard about.
The four buttons on the "1633" row of an AUTOVON telephone are labeled P, I, F, and FO for Priority, Immediate, Flash, and Flash-Override. The fifth (normal) level is of course routine, with no priority code attached.
And those levels appear as the TOS bits in RFC 791....
Yes, but nobody ever wrote a song about the TOS bits in Internet Protocol (this song dates to 1980): http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00182.html ---Rob