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Subject: Re: prioritizing small ip packets?
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Baldur Gislason wrote:
> IPFW does have a queue feature which is a part of dummynet.
> You can match packets based on size and send them to different queues.
> 
> Baldur
> 
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:36:57PM +0300, Erik Udo wrote:
> 
>>I came across this idea for prioritizing small
>>IP packets, so that for example HTTP requests,
>>game packets and other small, but importat packets
>>would get uploaded before the big packets. Big files
>>are usually uploaded in bigger packets, right?
>>
>>So, i haven't found a way to make this happen, i googled
>>for it but didn't find anything. Does PF or IPFW have this
>>feature?

I'm not sure the rationale is appropriate, though. You should be more 
worried about prioritizing ACKs if this is an asynchronous low-speed 
connection.

--Devon