TCP congestion control and large router buffers
Mikael Abrahamsson
swmike at swm.pp.se
Tue Dec 14 13:00:20 UTC 2010
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Sam Stickland wrote:
> But there's no need for AQM, just smaller buffers would make a huge
> difference.
Well, yes, buffering packets more than let's say 30-50ms on a 1 meg link
doesn't make much sense. But doing some basic AQM would make things even
better (some packets would see 0 buffering instead of 30ms).
> Surely buffers that can store seconds worth of data are simply too big?
FIFO with seconds worth of data is just silly, yes.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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