Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 17:39:45 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PPP prioritized packet queueing.. Message-ID: <12031.805163985@time.cdrom.com>
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Heikki's recent fix to if_ppp.c for properly supporting IPTOS_LOWDELAY connections got me thinking - does ijppp, which uses the tunneling driver, do something similar? I've long thought that it would be _really nice_ if I could continue to use my interactive telnet/rlogin sessions while running an ftp or sup in the background and not have them become unusably unresponsive, which is what happens now. In an ideal world, you'd continue to type away with almost no perception that anything else was happening and anything from an ftp to a long WWW transfer could be going on in the background simultaneously. This is especially important for households where one machine is serving as the PPP gateway with a 28.8K modem or something and several machines are on an internal network to it. User A is trying to read his email and commit something important on freefall and meanwhile users B and C, who are actually down the hall and locked in their bedrooms, are surfing the web and seeing how many porno GIFs they can download before user A comes stomping down the hall yelling "WOULD YOU GUYS KINDLY STOP SPAMMING THE %*&#$@!! LINK WHILE I'M TRYING TO USE IT FOR INTERACTIVE WORK?!!" Or something to that effect. Not that there's anything autobiographical in the above example.. :-) Atsushi? Are those of us who are happily using ijppp just out of luck here? Jordan
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