prioritizing small ip packets?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:14, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> This is true, prioritizing ACKs is very useful when you want to download
> with full speed while uploading.  But I tend to agree with Baldur's idea
> too : I give HTTP and DNS requests as well as interactive SSH session
> (TOS field set to "low delay") a heavy weight in order to have them
> practically unaffected by a big mail delivery or a scp.

There is still a problem whereby a large packet in transit can't be 
interrupted by a smaller packet.

One solution I saw for this when doing VoIP over ADSL was using PPPoE and 
setting it up for multi-link over one link. The packets get fragmented into 
smaller pieces and the fragments of smaller packets get higher priorities.

Not sure how much over head it cost, but ISTR it wasn't too bad.

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