[ntp:questions] Something which may help improve delays

Ron Frazier (NTP) timekeepingntplist at techstarship.com
Wed May 23 13:02:55 UTC 2012


On 5/23/2012 2:43 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
>> I did a very cursory check to see if this was already brought-up but
>> may have missed it.  Folks interested in addressing highly variable
>> delays in networks and such may find the "codel" AQM interesting.  It
>> seeks to keep the time packets spend in queues down as part of
>> addressing "buffer bloat."
>>
>> It won't eliminate variable delays and jitter but if it and/or things
>> like it get more widely deployed it may constrain them a bit.
>>
>> http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336
>>
>> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/codel
>
> I bought a NetGear 3800 a couple of weeks ago in order to run the 
> CeroWrt test release which is used to verify codel.
>
> So far it works well here, but I have a 50/50 fiber connection 
> (delivering at least 45-48 Mbits in both directions) so I don't see 
> much buffering in my end of the network.
>
> Terje
> PS. I attended a presentation by Jim Gettys, the BufferBloat Man, in 
> April: The story about how van Jacobsen could not get his new AQM 
> paper accepted to any refereed conference is both sad and funny:
>
> The paper was dismissed with the comment that "it has to be wrong" and 
> "the author would do well to read the definitive paper by van 
> Jacobsen". :-)
>

I read somewhere that "authorities" in the region were positively 
denying the possibility of manned flight for at least 5 years after the 
Wright Brothers were demonstrating the airplane.  What's that old saying?

When someone comes up with a revolutionary idea,

First they're mocked,
Then, it could be true,
Then, it's accepted, (sometimes after the originator's death)
Then, others say they discovered it first.

Sincerely,

Ron


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