From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jun 9 0:49: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92AE37C2AD for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mats.cullberg@ericsson.com) Received: from etxb.ericsson.se (avx6.etxb.ericsson.se [130.100.180.16]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.10.1/8.10.1/WIREfire-1.9) with ESMTP id e597mQr12146; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:48:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from avc023.etxb.ericsson.se (avc023 [130.100.190.101]) by etxb.ericsson.se (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/eri-dom-1.1) with ESMTP id JAA15042; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:48:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ericsson.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by avc023.etxb.ericsson.se (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/client-1.0) with ESMTP id JAA27542; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:48:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3940A149.BC8D2755@ericsson.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 09:48:25 +0200 From: Mats Cullberg X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Cc: Thierry Herbelot , 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> <393FFF36.BE411C54@cybercable.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > -- > 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 /Mats MPLS design Ericsson Telecom AB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message