Angelo Dell'Aera wrote: > But, if there're bursty sources which "share" this hop router with > your "kind host", it's easy to realize anything could be wasted by > their burstiness. Yes. The burstiness of one host uses up a resource which is shared among all the hosts at the router. OTOH, that's a great big clue: you can design your router to deliberately introduce small delays to dissipate some of the burstiness, and that has the affect of correcting somewhat for the unfairness, provided the router has buffers to do this. Having routers dissipate a little of the burstiness also compensates for the "network burstiness": the effect where the network itself tends to clump packets in aggregate together. Also, for anyone reading who wants to look into it, there are some theoretical advantages to slight randomisation of the delays, whether At the router or at the original sender. Have a nice day, -- Jamie - : 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
