Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:16:54 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> To: "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP- WF2Q and RED now available in -current Message-ID: <393FFF36.BE411C54@cybercable.fr> References: <200006081348.PAA03955@info.iet.unipi.it> <393FFC53.B3C82CFD@lucent.com>
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"Gary T. Corcoran" wrote: > > 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? Random Early Discard : if the channel has not enough bandwidth, just throw away some frames (randomly) TfH -- Thierry Herbelot ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN /"\ Dir. technique LUCCAS AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS \ / tout le cable sur http://www.luccas.org PAS DE HTML DANS X un CV : http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot LES COURRIELS / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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