There are a VERY large number of packet dropping schemes in existence, of which some have been implemented for Linux and others have implementations in Open Source environments that could probably be ported. I thought I'd be a nuisance and list the schemes I know of and the status (as far as I know it). What I would like is if people who (a) know of implementations that should be here could add them, and (b) know of compelling reasons why a scheme should NEVER (or almost never) be used could give the reason. The problem I'm having is that with 17 different schemes, I can only find Open Source implementations of three, and one of those is only for *BSDs. If for no other reason than Linux makes network research relatively trivial, I have to believe that the other algorithms are either in public patches that hardly anyone knows about, OR there is a catastrophic flaw of some kind that makes using them in a general-purpose OS a Really Bad Idea. So, where are they and/or what is the problem with them? RED (Implemented as a queue) Generic RED (Implemented as a queue) Stabilized RED Fair RED Adaptive RED Gentle RED Exponential RED RED+ BLUE (BSD implementation) Stocchastic BLUE BLACK GREEN PURPLE WHITE CHOKe MAFIC HAWK (For those who have got this far, MAFIC and HAWK are intrusion/attack countermeasure dropping schemes and look very intriguing.) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
