From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael T. Babcock" Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:58:17 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Re: further CBQ/tc documentation ds9a.nl/lartc/manpages Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:00:41PM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > Sure, just dropping packets will work to some extent, but not by far as > efficient in transmitted data as limited queue with drop on overflow > (preferably smarter than FIFO+overflow if you need support more than one > concurrent TCP session). This is why RED was created -- some of the research papers on RED show how it will balance out TCP traffic very well if tuned properly, but it isn't always perfectly straightforward. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/lartc/