[altq:1657] Re: Shaping an ADSL pipe

[Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>]

At 2002-10-02T13:02:27Z, Nicolas Christin <nicolas@cs.virginia.edu> writes:

> This is just my opinion, but the file looks just fine, and could be used
> as a basis for a more complicated setup. (Do you want to reserve 64K at
> all times for colo, even when it's not used?)

Thanks.  It seems to be working well, but it's nice to get a second opinion
from someone who's done this before.  No, I don't want to reserve the 64K
when it's not being used.  I believe that my setup handles this correctly,
since traffic goes into the full-bandwidth queue by default, and only
certain traffic gets filtered into the 64Kb queues.

> I'm not sure you want to use a RED dropper, though. RED has been shown to
> cause more problems than anything else when it's not properly configured,
> and configuring it is a mess.

Thanks for the tip.  The "ALTQ Tips" page seems to suggest using it, but
it's sort of vague:

    ``set "red" if you use RED dropper (good for TCP).''

> That's just my thoughts about RED, but I'm not the only person to follow
> this line of thoughts - RED is almost 10 years old, a lot of commercial
> routers support it, yet, no one deploys it...

That's the sort of information I was looking for.  I appreciate it!
-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.