[Bloat] philosophical question

[Neil Davies]

FIFO and traffic shaping - every time

Neil

On 30 May 2011, at 05:24, George B. wrote:

> Ok, say I have a network with no over subscription in my net.  I have
> 10G to the internet but am only using about 2G of that.  This is the
> server side of a network talking to millions of clients.  The clients
> in this case are on "lossy" wireless networks where packet loss is not
> an indication of congestion so much as it is an indication that the
> client moved 15 feet behind a pole and had poor network connectivity
> for a few minutes.
>
> The idea being that in today's internet, packet loss is not a good
> indication of congestion.  Often it just means that the radio signal
> has been briefly interrupted.  What I need is something that can tell
> the difference between real congestion and radio loss.  ECN seems to
> be the way forward in that respect.
>
> But assuming my network, as a server of content is not over
> subscribed, what would you suggest as the best qdisc for such a
> traffic profile? In other words, I am looking at this from the server
> aspect rather than from the client aspect.
>
> g
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