[179797] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IP DSCP across the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John van Oppen)
Thu May 7 16:02:14 2015
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From: John van Oppen <jvanoppen@spectrumnet.us>
To: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>, nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 20:02:04 +0000
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seems pretty real to me, I know we (AS11404) mark to zero on ingress... I=
think that is the typical case otherwise people would just tag their flood=
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That sounds like a rather poor implementation. What if they had more than o=
ne VoIP call?=0A=
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Seems like this thread has more FUD than real examples.=0A=
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From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>=0A=
To: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>=0A=
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Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 4:32:52 AM=0A=
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On Wed, 6 May 2015, Mark Tinka wrote:=0A=
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> With color-aware policing toward a customer in Uganda, any traffic=0A=
> coming from that peer in South Africa was getting dropped toward that=0A=
> customer in Uganda. After a very odd sequence of troubleshooting events,=
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> we found that the AF DSCP alues being set by the peer in South Africa=0A=
> (and us passing them due to the old kit not being able to remark on=0A=
> ingress) was causing the color-aware policer in Uganda to drop traffic=0A=
> toward the customer there.=0A=
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I have heard similar stories where game traffic ended up in a 100=0A=
kilobit/s VoIP queue which worked fine until there were a lot of nearby=0A=
players in the game, then things started working very badly. Also nice=0A=
corner case :P=0A=
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So yes, setting all external Internet traffic to DSCP=3DBE (0) is something=
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one wants to do.=0A=
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