QoS for system critical packets on wireless

[Jim Gettys]

On 06/22/2011 11:00 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Jim Gettys<jg at freedesktop.org>  wrote:
>> 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".
> I totally agree that overloading 'mice' is the wrong thing to do. mice
> is a very useful category defined as 'short tcp streams', and well
> discussed that way in the existing TCP literature.
>
> I think I've settled on ANT, but lack a suitable backronym. Ants do
> useful stuff, taking care of cleaning up and organizing the universe.
> They are orderly, and hard to see,
> and can lift enormous things despite their size.
> Given my radio background I dislike it because it's short for antenna,
> but 'bee is confusing, and hard to spell, bird is the name of a
> routing daemon, and I'm plumb out of ideas lacking other analogies...
>
>

I like Bees, myself.   They pollinate everything (a good analogy to what 
DNS, DHCP, et. al. do).
             - Jim

>>                 - Jim
>>
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