[Bloat] is there no RED at level3?

Wes Felter wmf at felter.org
Thu Jul 31 16:13:25 EDT 2014


On 7/30/14, 5:49 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> I have been following the level3 vs verizon debate with some interest,
> trying to sort out fact from fiction. It does appear that once they
> saturate a core interconnect they end up with nearly 100ms of latency in
> it. Is RED not available on 10GigE interconnects or any other mediation
> means to increase packet loss in exchange for getting better latency?

Wasn't CoDel created because nobody understands how to configure RED?

If you've built a network under the assumption that congestion won't 
happen, why enable RED?

If you're in an adversarial public pissing match, is your incentive to 
make the situation look better or worse?

-- 
Wes Felter





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