Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:43:33 -0700 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com> To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: prioritizing small ip packets? Message-ID: <42ADD3D5.6080103@offmyserver.com> In-Reply-To: <20050613184128.GA16980@gremlin.foo.is> References: <42ADD249.7020709@dnainternet.net> <20050613184128.GA16980@gremlin.foo.is>
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Baldur Gislason wrote: > IPFW does have a queue feature which is a part of dummynet. > You can match packets based on size and send them to different queues. > > Baldur > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:36:57PM +0300, Erik Udo wrote: > >>I came across this idea for prioritizing small >>IP packets, so that for example HTTP requests, >>game packets and other small, but importat packets >>would get uploaded before the big packets. Big files >>are usually uploaded in bigger packets, right? >> >>So, i haven't found a way to make this happen, i googled >>for it but didn't find anything. Does PF or IPFW have this >>feature? I'm not sure the rationale is appropriate, though. You should be more worried about prioritizing ACKs if this is an asynchronous low-speed connection. --Devon
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