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From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu•info>
To: "Michal Kubeček" <mkubecek@suse•cz>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	"John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel•com>
Subject: Re: tc filter mask for ACK packets off?
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:01:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0396D1.9030303@ziu.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21734335.uCtjXOcSpA@alaris>

On 12-01-03 08:31, Michal Kubeček wrote:
> On Saturday 31 of December 2011 21:30EN, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>>  <cut>
>
> However, by a "ACK only" packet (worth prioritizing), I would rather
> understand a packet with ACK flag without any payload, not a packet with
> ACK as the only flag. For many TCP connections, all packets except
> initial SYN and SYN-ACK and two FIN packets have ACK as the only flag.
> So my guess is you should rather prioritize all TCP packets with no
> application layer data.
>
>                                                           Michal Kubecek

In context of the above - xtables-addons provide length2 match which 
(possibly paired with other iptables matches) gives excellent control 
for such tasks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-04  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-01  2:30 tc filter mask for ACK packets off? John A. Sullivan III
2012-01-03  7:31 ` Michal Kubeček
2012-01-03  9:36   ` Dave Taht
2012-01-03 10:40     ` [RFC] SFQ planned changes Eric Dumazet
2012-01-03 12:07       ` Dave Taht
2012-01-03 12:50         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-03 16:08           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-03 23:57             ` Dave Taht
2012-01-04  0:14               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-04  7:56                 ` Dave Taht
2012-01-04  8:17                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-03 12:18     ` tc filter mask for ACK packets off? John A. Sullivan III
2012-01-03 12:32       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-03 12:45         ` John A. Sullivan III
2012-01-03 13:00           ` Dave Taht
2012-01-03 17:57             ` John A. Sullivan III
2012-01-04  0:01   ` Michal Soltys [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-01  2:30 John A. Sullivan III

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