[137952] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon MPLS service in Anchorage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu Feb 24 10:08:45 2011
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.1102240957420.12978@cevin-2.local>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:08:37 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, lists lists wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing that packets marked as DSCP EF are given fantastic treatment
>> (low
>> jitter, no packet loss), but other packets, including AF41, AF31, and BE
>> are
>> given what appears to be the "junk bucket" treatment.
>
> Hah, just a few days ago I spoke with an "engineer" at VZ that tried to
> claim that each of the treatments were different, but that they only char=
ged
> extra for EF. =A0I asked why I shouldn't just put all my traffic in the
> highest "free" treatment and beat out all the other customers for the bes=
t
> treatment for mine. =A0He told me that "most of his customers weren't try=
ing
> to get their traffic through at the expense of other customers".
>
> Anyway, despite what their "engineers" say, only EF is actually treated o=
n
> the VZ network better than BE, the rest are just to prioritize traffic at
> your own egress port.
'at your egress port' .. or 'where you are attempting to put 10lbs of
crap in a 5lb bag'.. chances are the anchorage node is actually a
partner node anyway, fyi.
