On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:28:58PM +0500, rihad wrote: > Oh, I almost forgot... Right now I've googled up and am reading this > intro: http://www-rp.lip6.fr/~sf/WebSF/PapersWeb/iscc01.ps > > So turning to GRED would turn my FreeBSD router from dumb into a smart > router that knows TCP? I thought pushing bits around at a lower level, > and a sufficient queue size were enough.
No, it will still deal with IP packets but more clever. > Still not sure why increasing queue size as high as I want doesn't > completely eliminate drops. The goal is to make sources of traffic to slow down, this is the only way to descrease drops - any finite queue may be overhelmed with traffic. Taildrop does not really help with this. GRED does much better. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
