Re: [aqm] ACK Suppression

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Subject: Re: [aqm] ACK Suppression
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Small packets shouldn't be supressed just because they are small... no ssh connections would work.
 


On Monday, October 12, 2015 6:39pm, "Jonathan Morton" <chromatix99@gmail.com> said:



> 
> > On 13 Oct, 2015, at 01:34, Greg White <g.white@CableLabs.com> wrote:
> >
> > But, unfortunately for you, middleboxes have no idea (yet) of what QUIC ack
> packets look like, so they can't prioritize them.
> 
> If they are small, then at least some boxes will take that as a sufficient hint.
> 
> - Jonathan Morton
> 
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