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Date:      Fri, 09 Jun 2000 09:48:25 +0200
From:      Mats Cullberg <mats.cullberg@ericsson.com>
To:        "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com>
Cc:        Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP- WF2Q and RED now available in -current
Message-ID:  <3940A149.BC8D2755@ericsson.com>
References:  <200006081348.PAA03955@info.iet.unipi.it> <393FFC53.B3C82CFD@lucent.com> <393FFF36.BE411C54@cybercable.fr>

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Thierry Herbelot wrote:

> "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?

You can find a lot of info at:
http://www.aciri.org/floyd/red.html

>
>
> Random Early Discard : if the channel has not enough bandwidth, just
> throw away some frames (randomly)

I think is it Detection, not Discard.

>
>
>         TfH
>
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/Mats

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