John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> writes: > rick jones writes: >> The term may be new, but the idea, in its abstract form, has been >> around for years. > > Only recently, however, has memory become cheap enough for people to > stuff megabytes of buffer into routers without considering the > consequences.
Also, the dynamic range of internet connections goes from 64k to 10GE now, and the exploding growth of lossy wireless links has introduced new problems not even theoretically accounted for. > BTW there are queuing algorithms that work well with large buffers. Few of which appear to be in use. -- Dave Taht http://nex-6.taht.net _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions