Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:37:21 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <199611200137.UAA10562@etinc.com>
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> > Clearly we're not talking about the same things here...Im not sure what > you mean by routing protocol stablity. Are you talking about IP? BGP? > or what? > >BGP, OSPF, whatever... the problem remains the same, only the constants >change. > > IP is largely self throttling, and queue management shouldnt allow for > holding packets longer than the protocols allow for. > >And around we go.... queue management needs to guarantee that "my packets >get out in a timely fashion" (sorry, Unix doesn't). Queue management that >drops protocol packets is a Bad Thing, as the protocol will fail sooner... Well, routing protocol packets are priority packets and packets never get dropped from the priority queues (well, not normally). This is a feature in our product's driver...not BSD in general. Dennis
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