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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:08:46 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        davidg@root.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa sio.c 
Message-ID:  <9506261508.AA18341@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199506252258.PAA00581@corbin.Root.COM>
References:  <9506252023.AA17317@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199506252258.PAA00581@corbin.Root.COM>

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<<On Sun, 25 Jun 1995 15:58:35 -0700, David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> said:

>> This is because you don't have priority queueing for TCP ack packets.
>> You probably will before the end of the year.

>    I'm not sure this going help a lot - most of the data gets buffered in the
> modem and priority queing for ACKs isn't going to help this.

This is arguably a problem with the modems and not the machines.  This
sort of situation makes it impossible to offer any useful sort of
quality-of-service beyond best-effort.

-GAWollman

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