QoS for system critical packets on wireless

[Jim Gettys]

On 06/22/2011 11:17 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
> The biggest fallout of the diffserv work I was trying was observing
> that most packets fell into one of 3 buckets:
>
> 1) System control and 'MICE' are<  less than 1% of all packets. Mice
> includes a bunch of messages like ARP, NTP, UDP, and most of the icmp6
> portion of the stack, in what I'm doing currently. Mice are
> desperately needed for the network to continue to function.

I'd not use this term: please call it something else.

Van and Kathy have talked about HTTP "mice" and "elephant" TCP flows for 
a long time, and you'll terminally confuse everyone if you call these 
items "mice".

                 - Jim