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SubjectRe: Packet Scheduling
Reply-to: jsh@truedesign.com

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Josip Gracin wrote:

> Kevin Lentin writes:
> > What I want is for interactive telnet sessions to be responsive while an
> > ftp or http request is being processed. Under term, packets were
> > prioritised based on client. I'm expecting you can't do that in tcp but
> > size should be a good approximation.
>
> I haven't tried linux packet scheduling yet, but my guess is that, since
> the scheduler can only control transmit queues, interactive sessions'
> performance while doing FTP transfers over serial links will not be much
> improved. Am I right?
>
> Unless, of course, the other side is Linux too, which happens more and
> more often to me. ;)

Unless the terminal server at the other end of the ppp connection is
linux, not if the machine you are ftping to is linux..

Jason
jsh@truedesign.com

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> | mailto:grac@fly.cc.fer.hr, http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~grac
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