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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 16:04:35 -0400
From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com>
Organization: Lucent Microelectronics - Client Access Broadband Systems
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP- WF2Q and RED now available in -current
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Luigi,

> as the subject says, i have just committed some new code to
> dummynet (and related hooks and documentation for ipfw) to
> implement RED (thanks to Gianluca Iannaccone) and a
> variant of Weighted Fair Queueing called WF2Q+

I checked your web page, but didn't find anything describing
what "RED" is.  And I'm afraid if I just put "red" into a
search engine I'll get a zillion results...  ;-)

So could you just very briefly explain what "RED" is, and/or
point me to a URL which describes it?

Thanks,
Gary
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