On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:43:05PM -0500, jamal wrote: > - You keep saying "reodering" -- dont know what that means. Reordering is > generally considered a Bad Thing(tm). Reordering happens on a mass scale (packets often go out in a different order than they were received / generated) but not on a per-qdisc scale (packets go out 'in order' within an SFQ queue or within a CBQ queue). Its quite obvious that fairness causes overall reordering of the available packets because you sometimes with to pass along (for example) an SSH packet before the 10 waiting FTP packets even though the latter got there first. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
