Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 23:30:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@nic.follonett.no> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible networking bug in 2.2.1-Release Message-ID: <199704232130.XAA07460@nic.follonett.no> In-Reply-To: <199704231416.KAA17910@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Apr 23, 97 10:16:10 am"
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> There are three things wrong with this code: > > 1) It has a slow divide. > 2) Fragments are a case to worry about on the slow path. > 3) It knows far too much about the drop-tail queueing strategy. > > (3) really bites, and when I implemented RED last year I tossed it > completely. Unfortunately, my RED work has not made it into the main > line of FreeBSD yet. I hope it will, some day, but it may take a > while before I have an environment where I can test it again. Probably a question I should know the answer to, but I'll ask it anyway: What is RED? Eivind
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