True or False: MS/IIS receiving preferencial network handling?

Hi all

I've just been told a little tale and I'd like to verify it in some way,
but don't know where to start. I'm hoping that someone in here might have
a clue.

I've just been told a network engineer from UUNet that certain Cisco edge
devices give preferential treatment to traffic and content originating
from MS/IIS web servers, thus flushing non-MS traffic / content faster.

Any comments?


Wayne de Villiers
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"Wayne de Villiers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all
>
> I've just been told a little tale and I'd like to verify it in some way,
> but don't know where to start. I'm hoping that someone in here might have
> a clue.
>
> I've just been told a network engineer from UUNet that certain Cisco edge
> devices give preferential treatment to traffic and content originating
> from MS/IIS web servers, thus flushing non-MS traffic / content faster.
>
> Any comments?

It is within the scope of technical possibility. It would be a PITA to
setup/maintain, so I doubt that it is a reality on any h/w not
owned/operated by M$.

JW

> I've just been told a network engineer from UUNet that certain Cisco
> edge devices give preferential treatment to traffic and content
> originating from MS/IIS web servers, thus flushing non-MS traffic /
> content faster.

He's probably referring to the little TCP/IP game that IE and IIS play
together; there is a slight misuse of the TCP/IP protocol that both IE and
IIS have built-in; this means that connections between those pieces of
software might be [re-]established quicker than between IE & Apache or
Mozilla & Apache, or Mozilla & IIS (you get the idea).

This is the kind of a$$hole trick you can play when you're a software
monopoly. Read up:

http://www.mail-archive.com/foib@ian.../msg00031.html

(This was published January 2003)

--
Jem Berkes
http://www.sysdesign.ca/