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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP working group?
Message-ID: <10229@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 14 Apr 88 18:08:28 GMT
References: <8803301649.AA24991@bu-cs.bu.edu> <8804131518.AA11956@XN.LL.MIT.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Has anyone modified the SLIP driver to do ``fair queueuing''?  SLIP links
are sufficiently slow that a file transfer operation can make remote logins
exceedingly unpleasant.  A queuer that favored short packets, or perhaps
one that did per-hostport queueing, would be helpful.  (I know -- what I'm
really asking for is type-of-service support, but then I'd have to change
all of my applications, and perhaps my TCP/IPs, to request it.)


			--Steve Bellovin
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