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Re: [ns] DropTail Queue



If you want a short reply - use heterogenous round trip times, and reverse
traffic.

If curious why this happens - http://www.aciri.org/floyd/papers/phase.pdf

	- Ratul

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Suman Nath wrote:

> 
>  Hi
>  
>  If two identical TCP flows (same parameter, going through similar
>  links) share a congested link and the link has DropTail queuing, NS shows
>  one of the flows to suffer most (if not all) packet drops, while the other
>  flow suffer almost no loss. (This has also been shown in Marc Greis's
>  tutorial, in "Monitoring the Queue Seciton"). 
>  
>  I think this is not the case in real world.
>  
>  Can anyone tell me how I can avoid this effect, and see real-world like
>  behaviour.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Suman Nath
>  
>  
> 
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