From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Wildgoose Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:22:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Best method for filtering ACKs? Message-Id: <40D58F88.7080603@wildgooses.com> List-Id: References: <200406201503.42393.stefan.gold@stud.tu-ilmenau.de> In-Reply-To: <200406201503.42393.stefan.gold@stud.tu-ilmenau.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Stefan Gold wrote: >Hello, > >I'm wondering which of these filters is the best method for filtering ACK >packages to achieve lowest delay possible on a dsl-link. > > I think this is an excellent start for most stuff: http://digriz.org.uk/jdg-qos-script/ The reason for all the frills is basically that some P2P protocols cheat and use ACK for actual transfer of data. So I *think* both your examples, just try to filter only ACK's smaller than a certain size (128 bytes is a good size), larger ones should be left alone and assumed to be bulk data. Ed W _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/