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Congestion control/QoS
From: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk () orlando power net>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 08:14:56 -0700
Seems to me that a good way of limiting damage from runaway networks/hosts would be a modifaction of RED (Random Early Drop). Controlled Early Drop (CED? I just made this up, suggestions?) would allow a router to give a preference to connected networks/hosts. Packets from certain networks would have a higher chance of being dropped from a router queue then packets from other networks. CED can be used to price connections! You want 10%, you pay x. You want 50%, you pay y. Everybody gets full speed when the network is empty. When networks get congested everybody gets what they paid for. Seems like a better way of pricing Internet connections. Right now way too many people are stuck behind small pipes. Most T1 customers use only a small fraction of their circuit. How do you sell Ethernet connections? 100MB Ethernet connections? while still protecting your network. CED looks like a solution on this early Friday morning. Comments? Dirk - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Congestion control/QoS Dirk Harms-Merbitz (May 23)
- Re: Congestion control/QoS Jon 'tex' Boone (May 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Congestion control/QoS Vadim Antonov (May 23)
- Re: Congestion control/QoS Michael Dillon (May 23)