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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 23:30:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@nic.follonett.no>
To:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Possible networking bug in 2.2.1-Release
Message-ID:  <199704232130.XAA07460@nic.follonett.no>
In-Reply-To: <199704231416.KAA17910@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Apr 23, 97 10:16:10 am"

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> There are three things wrong with this code:
> 
> 1) It has a slow divide.
> 2) Fragments are a case to worry about on the slow path.
> 3) It knows far too much about the drop-tail queueing strategy.
> 
> (3) really bites, and when I implemented RED last year I tossed it
> completely.  Unfortunately, my RED work has not made it into the main
> line of FreeBSD yet.  I hope it will, some day, but it may take a
> while before I have an environment where I can test it again.

Probably a question I should know the answer to, but I'll ask it anyway:
What is RED?

Eivind



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