On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:00:41PM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > Sure, just dropping packets will work to some extent, but not by far as > efficient in transmitted data as limited queue with drop on overflow > (preferably smarter than FIFO+overflow if you need support more than one > concurrent TCP session). This is why RED was created -- some of the research papers on RED show how it will balance out TCP traffic very well if tuned properly, but it isn't always perfectly straightforward. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
