[81095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Wed May 25 15:07:26 2005
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 15:06:59 -0400
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Saku Ytti <saku+nanog@ytti.fi>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050525185003.GA24283@ytti.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 5/25/2005 2:50 PM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> Beatiful idea, how in practice do you suggest this is done, how will
> my router know if it should just ignore the TOS bytes or do expedited
> forwarding as configured for given value of TOS byte?
VLANs? Different route paths? Any of a dozen other ways to limit special
processing to the networks that have paid for it and dump everybody else
into the best-effort pool?
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