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Subject: Re: PPP feature request (Tx queue len + close)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:55:51 -0000
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> Tx queue length
> ---------------
> Problem : IrDA does its buffering (IrTTP is a sliding window
> protocol). PPP does its buffering (1 packet in ppp_generic +
> dev->tx_queue_len = 3). End result : a large number of packets queued
> for transmissions, which result in some network performance issues.
>
> Solution : could we allow the PPP channel to overwrite
> dev->tx_queue_len ?
> This is similar to the channel beeing able to set the MTUs and
> other parameters...

somebody please correct me if i am wrong but if the
txqueuelen not set from userspace from
ifconfig ?


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