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Re: WRED and QoS provisioning in ISP network

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Aug 31 20:41:32 2004

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:40:41 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
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* joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg (Joe Shen) [Tue 31 Aug 2004, 13:28 CEST]:
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> 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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