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Re: Traffic Shape or Rate Limit

  • From: E.B. Dreger
  • Date: Tue Oct 02 15:55:42 2001 
> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 14:37:59 -0500
> From: John Kristoff <[email protected]>

> > Consider also RED variants versus simple tail-drop.
> 
> Yes, if you know me that goes without saying, however I know a

(That I do not... still pretty new on NANOG.)

> number of a number of folks, particularly at large ISPs that
> are opposed to RED for one technical reason or another.

I've seen papers/posts for, against, and neutral on, various RED
flavors.  Rather than start a flame war or dig up bookmarks, I
decided to bring up the subject and effectively say "STFW". :-)

One probably should mention, too, that there are various queueing
disciplines besides the [seemingly] most ubiquitous RED.  Any
others would probably require consideration of hardware used.


Eddy

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