Re: AltQ + ng_iface

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 07/29/05

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    To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:14:59 +0930

    On Friday 29 July 2005 11:02, Chuck Swiger wrote:
    > Either the "established" or the "tcpflags !syn,ack" keywords in a rule
    > adding matching packets to a high-priority queue ought to do it...? Or
    > perhaps you meant something more specific than just "TCP packets with
    > TH_ACK" set? :-)

    Hmm, I guess you could make those skip the pipe..

    > Anyway, I'm not convinced that trying to classify packets within an
    > established TCP connection in order to place them on different queues is a
    > really good idea, since you're quite likely to reorder the packets by doing
    > so. I'd expect both latency and bandwidth of a TCP connection to suffer
    > very noticably if more than 10% or so of the packets arrive out of order...

    The theory is that by prioritising outgoing ACKs you don't cause downstream
    delays when your upstream is full. eg
    http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html

    > [ Hmm. I suppose that one could make an exception to the above
    > generalization if URG was set, but the TCP stack already makes an effort to
    > prioritize and deliver out-of-band urgent stuff as quickly as possible,
    > anyway, right? ]

    Maybe, but it doesn't appear to do a particularly good job for a lot of
    situations :) 

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