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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:51:24 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        eivind@yes.no, plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp command.c datalink.c datalink.h          defs.h vars.c vars.h
Message-ID:  <199802180751.IAA02274@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199802172137.QAA14720@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Feb 17, 98 04:37:29 pm

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> >> * Fair Queueing support (i don't think it is already there, just a
> >> priority for interactive packets ?)  the code could be grabbed from
> >> the ALTQ package recently announced on this list. Not necessarily
> >> the full package, just the FQ stuff could help;
> 
> > This is on my list of things that must be done.  I can't guarantee
> > when I'll come to it, but if others don't take of them, I will.
> 
> RED would be a good thing to have as well.  Cisco lets you choose
> among four different queueing disciplines.

RED is good for fast links where you don't want to pay the additional
cost of keeping separate queues etc (although this can be done
quickly in constant time, you still have some cost in doing packet
classification).

on ppp frankly i'd still try to use fair queueing.

	cheers
	luigi
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