23 Feb
2012
23 Feb
'12
11:07 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:04:10PM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote:
I'm not sure what benefits WRED would add.
I think it is more likely to hit a dynamic equilibrium: the % of packets dropped increases proportionately as the queue gets fuller. Otherwise I suspect it will become bursty: queue goes over 50% and is increasing, we start dropping packets, the queue starts to shrink, we start accepting packets for a while, the queue starts to grow, we start dropping packets again... OTOH, we wouldn't get the full benefit of this unless the NASes implement exponential backoff. If they just resend packets every 3 seconds, say, then an overload situation will remain an overload situation anyway.