On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:50:52 +1000 Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com> wrote: > At 01:38 PM 6/08/2003, David S. Miller wrote: > >On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:11:02 -0400 > >Jonathon Ross <jonathan.ross@instinet.com> wrote: > > > >Show us a router in the real world that drops "bytes" instead of > >"packets", and we will change the Linux TCP algorithms :-) > > the company i work for ships lots of routers which implement WRED tail-drop > with drop probability taking into account the size of a packet. So does Linux's packet schedulers that implement various RED algorithms. But this is not what I'm talking about. When a router "drops" something, it drops a whole packet not some "bytes" in the packet. This is what I'm talking about. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
