Re: "tail drop" vs. "undiscriminating drop"

From: Tarun Pahuja (pahujat@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 04:28:44 ART


John,
         Dropping mechanisms can be deterministic in the case of weighted
random early detection (WRED) or undeterministic in the case of tail drop.

HTH,
Tarun

On 6/14/07, johngibson1541@yahoo.com <johngibson1541@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I know these 2 are technically the same.
>
> We don't like that to happen.
>
> But I just think saying "undiscriminating drop"
> is much more specific, to the point.
>
> Every time I see or hear "tail drop", I have to
> translate it to "undiscriminating drop" to
> make sense to myself.
>
> "tail drop" is the physical appearance and can
> happen in different setting and mean different
> things.
>
> "undiscriminating drop" is just plain straight
> forward that we want to prevent.
>
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