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Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Oct 25 07:02:14 2007

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Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:58:16 +0200
To: "<michael.dillon@bt.com>" <michael.dillon@bt.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 25-okt-2007, at 3:33, <michael.dillon@bt.com>  
<michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:

> I really think that a two-tiered QOS system such as the scavenger
> suggestion is workable if the applications can do the marking. Has
> anyone done any testing to see if DSCP bits are able to travel  
> unscathed
> through the public Internet?

Sure, Apple has. I don't think they intended to, though.

http://www.mvldesign.com/video_conference_tutorial.html

Search for "DSCP" or "Comcast" on that page.

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