Second concern is that many of our equipment vendors already use

Linux. Even Cisco now in some products. Maybe we'll waste our time

trying to roll our own solution and then find that a software update

from a vendor next year gives us everything we needed anyway.

 

This would be great, of course, and do go and bug your vendors to solve

this problem! Note, however, that just because a system is running

Linux on the control plane, it may be using a hardware-offloaded data

plane that does not have any of the bufferbloat mitigation features

(unless the vendor specifically implemented them). I'm hoping that

*eventually* these things will be ubiquitous across the industry, but

thus far this has seemed to be an "any decade now" kind of proposition :/

 

-Toke