Re: [aqm] ACK Suppression

Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> Mon, 12 October 2015 22:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [aqm] ACK Suppression
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> On 13 Oct, 2015, at 01:34, Greg White <g.white@CableLabs.com> wrote:
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> 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