From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jun 8 13:23:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (r148m178.cybercable.tm.fr [195.132.148.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0B737C142 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: from cybercable.fr (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16074; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:25:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Message-ID: <393FFF36.BE411C54@cybercable.fr> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:16:54 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Cc: Luigi Rizzo , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP- WF2Q and RED now available in -current References: <200006081348.PAA03955@info.iet.unipi.it> <393FFC53.B3C82CFD@lucent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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