Re: network nicety

Majdi Abbas (abbas@cdtelecom.com)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:55:52 -0400 (EDT)

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
| Um... doesn't TOS bit tweaking help this? IPChains has some mention
| of it to greatly improve interactive performance even while heavy data
| trasfer is taking place.

TOS bit tweaking only works when used in conjunction with a
priority-queueing system. Since PPP is designed for use with multiple
protocols, I doubt it implements IP priority queues. I know that some
SLIP drivers do it, but I don't know if Linux supports it at all.

So I guess the question is does Linux support IP priority queues
and how hard would it be to write/port them to a PPP/IP priority queue
module or such (similar to the compression modules)

--msa

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Majdi Abbas	<abbas@cdtelecom.com>	Systems/Network Admin
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