Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:59:16 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be> To: Benjamin Franks <benjamin@dzhan.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: giving priority to udp over tcp? Message-ID: <20020720015916.682d49fd.jylefort@brutele.be> In-Reply-To: <20020718220521.F46506-100000@crimea.dzhan.com> References: <20020718220521.F46506-100000@crimea.dzhan.com>
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Benjamin Franks <benjamin@dzhan.com> wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 4.5 and have custom applications that send receive > network packets over both tcp and udp sockets. For the sake of an > example, assume that the udp traffic is always constant, but the tcp > traffic density changes. During times of heavy tcp traffic density, > will udp messages which have been sent to the out queue typically wait > in the queue longer before being sent out? Does tcp traffic get some > sort of priority? If so, is there a way I can de-prioritize tcp > traffic and up the priority of the udp traffic to make certain all the > queued udp messages get out as soon as possible...? sysctl variables? > does it > depend on the network card driver, or perhaps i'm imagining something > that isn't there and the two traffic types are totally isolated! ;) man dummynet Regards, Jean-Yves Lefort -- Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@brutele.be http://void.adminz.be/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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