[55745] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Feb 10 14:03:15 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:34:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Ray Burkholder <ray@oneunified.net>
Cc: Charles Youse <cyouse@register.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <2697FBAC6B1EF643B30E7B16B6E6958F0E9C85@master.oneunified.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> QoS isn't necessarily about throwing packets away. It is more like
> making voice packets 'go to the head of the line'. Of course, if you
> have saturation, some packets will get dropped, but at least the voice
> packets won't get dropped since they were prioritized higher.
Why bother? It's a pain in the ass, and doesn't give any noticable
benefit.
-Bill
