Subject: Re: IFQ_MAXLEN: How large can it be?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/16/2006 09:35:36
On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:35 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> "RED" is an output interface queueing discipline (it stands for, as I
> recall, "Random Early Drop", though the altq.conf file says "Random
> Early
> Detection").
I've always viewed this terminology discrepancy this way:
- From a router's point of view, it's Random Early Drop.
- From an endpoint's point of view, it's Random Early Detection (of
congestion).
-- thorpej