>>>>> "David" == David Lang writes: David> We strongly suspect that we want to prioritize short-lived connections over David> long lived connections. We don't know a good way to do this, but one good David> starting point would be to prioritize syn packets so that the initialization David> of the connection happens as fast as possible. David> Ideally we'd probably like to prioritize the first couple of packets of a David> connection so that very short lived connections finish quickly It's not short-lived that we care about (think HTTP/1.1 connections). It's connections which are newly active. I think, but I'm not certain, are those which have not yet opened their window: slow start is still active. That also means that the connection can not yet dominate. -- ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life! | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ Kyoto Plus: watch the video then sign the petition.