MAXSAVEDBLOCKS in netinet/tcp_sack.c

Noritoshi Demizu demizu at dd.iij4u.or.jp
Tue Jul 5 07:27:41 PDT 2005


> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:08:50AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >     Ouch.  Dummynet is probably not the best solution.  Actually, what
> >     I would do is buy a cisco with a relatively recent IOS and run
> >     fair-queue or RED, but if that isn't in the cards then I recommend
> >     playing around with Packet Filter (pf).  It has a number of queueing
> >     solutions.  I haven't used PF much myself so I don't know if it can
> >     do RED, but I believe it does have a fair-queueing mechanism.
>
> It's not PF, but ALTQ. ALTQ certainly support RED, it's very easy to setup.
> PF is only used as interface for the queue setup and the tagging to decide
> which queue discipline to use.

According to man page, it seems that dummynet also has RED.

Regards,
Noritoshi Demizu





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