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Re: WRED and QoS provisioning in ISP network

From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:40:41 +0200


* joe_hznm () yahoo com sg (Joe Shen) [Tue 31 Aug 2004, 13:28 CEST]:
[..]

But, as I know WRED will bias normal TCP flows, while UDP and greedy
TCP flows(like BT download) will win in Bandwidth competition.


What makes you think that BitTorrent's TCP sessions are in any way more
`greedy' of bandwidth than TCP sessions set up by other applications?


        -- Niels.

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