> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:56:32AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > Is it better to drop
> > packets when the queue is full and let the various applications behind me
> > figure it out, or is it better to add some latency at the network layer so
> > the apps dont have to deal with it.
>
> If you find yourself hitting the queue limit I'd suggest using RED or
> GRED with ipfw to drop packets more intelligently before the hard limit
we are talking about a different queue here, which is not managed by
ipfw (now you are actually giving me an idea on adding this
feature...)
cheers
luigi
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