On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
Au-contrar (sp), if there's a big fat ftp download filling the pipe I want to drop some of it's packets to favor, for example, VOIP traffic. But when there's no VOIP traffic I want ftp to be able to (almost) fill the pipe. So, I start dropping packets _before_ the pipe is filled so that I _can_ receive the packets I want to favor and let them take up more of the allowed bandwidth.
One thing that I always wondered about in this type of queueing setup (having to tell the queue manager how much bw is available) is how does one handle cases like ADSL where one day you may have 384 up, but it rains the next day and you've got 256. Or if something upstream is congested and you really only have 192 available...
Thoughts? Charles
The improvement in "interesting" bandwidth is worth the loss in total bandwidth. (See old thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=112139406900001&r=1&w=2&n=6 ) Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein
