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Network routing is directed flow; water flow is undirected, so backflow is possible. The dangers of analogy....


There are many queues in the devices along a route which are not unbounded. Back pressure is still an issue.


The problem is that you can have backwards flow, not just backwards pressure, because water has to be conserved.




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