[MLB-WIRELESS] Packet scheduling [aka: What do people want to do with the wirele ss connection?]

[dwayne]

Tyson.Clugg at csiro.au wrote:

>>Given that we control the internal network, I strongly 
>>suggest we look 
>>into this sort of thing, so we *can* do huge transfers while not 
>>interfering with gaming, telephony etc.
>>
>
>Don't you mean telephony, *then* gaming?
>

Don't you think you are paying too much attention to the order things 
popped into my head?

>Off the top of my head, isn't there a QOS field in the TCP/IP header that is
>indicative of the importance of the packet?  Don't most apps already set
>this to appropriate values?
>

Aha, this is what I was referring to. I don't think they do.

>The real question is do routers actually *use* this information when doing
>packet scheduling, or do most routers simply fire the packets out FIFO
>style?  How can linux or any other OS be told what to do with important
>packets?
>

Yeah, what he said.

Dwayne


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