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Date:      Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:16:54 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>
To:        "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP- WF2Q and RED now available in -current
Message-ID:  <393FFF36.BE411C54@cybercable.fr>
References:  <200006081348.PAA03955@info.iet.unipi.it> <393FFC53.B3C82CFD@lucent.com>

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"Gary T. Corcoran" wrote:
> 
> Luigi,
> 
> > as the subject says, i have just committed some new code to
> > dummynet (and related hooks and documentation for ipfw) to
> > implement RED (thanks to Gianluca Iannaccone) and a
> > variant of Weighted Fair Queueing called WF2Q+
> 
> I checked your web page, but didn't find anything describing
> what "RED" is.  And I'm afraid if I just put "red" into a
> search engine I'll get a zillion results...  ;-)
> 
> So could you just very briefly explain what "RED" is, and/or
> point me to a URL which describes it?

Random Early Discard : if the channel has not enough bandwidth, just
throw away some frames (randomly)

	TfH

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