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On 03/03/2011 12:16 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
>> For wireless routers and cable home gateways especially, this research
>> shows that the total un-managed buffers in your system should be less
>> than 32.
>
> Would it be a good thing to start describing these queues not so much in
> terms of packets but in terms of delay (or bandwidth X delay)?
>

The unit of bandwidth is something like Mbps, that of delay can be 
second, so bandwidth X delay --> Mb, which is the unit of packet size. 
So both packets and delay should have the same effect for sizing buffers.

Tianji


> Constants tend to live longer than they should, no matter how noble in
> birth.
>
> rick jones
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