On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Jonathan Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not ideal, but I'm not quite as worried about that as you might be. > There are several potential causes of packet loss in a network, and > increasing buffer sizes is only likely to have a minor and temporary effect > on one of them.
Clearly establishing that 0 packet loss (without ECN) is bad, that some range of rates of packet loss relative to bandwidth is GOOD, and levels above that indicative of a problem, would nice. I can envision a meter designed to show that. > > Meanwhile, increased deployment of ECN would permit adding AQM as a means to > decrease packet loss. > > Random packet loss due to poor quality lines, and also due to dumb policers > and overloaded core routers, is probably what's intended here. > > - Jonathan Morton > > > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat > -- Dave Täht Let's make wifi fast, less jittery and reliable again! https://plus.google.com/u/0/107942175615993706558/posts/TVX3o84jjmb _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
