Re: QoS/CoS interest

[garyz () savvis com (Gary Zimmerman)]

Would be nice to start using these hooks, if everyone would get on board. 
We would support any movement in this direction, it would help us with some
of our QoS/CoS issues.  We have talked to a few of the larger providers
without much luck. I like the sanity of using the precedence bits. 

Gary Zimmerman
V.P. of Network Engineering
Savvis Communications Corp.
email: garyz () savvis com
http://www.savvis.com
Office: 314.719.2423
Address: 7777 Bonhomme Suite 1000
               St. Louis, MO 63105


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> From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>
> To: peter () injersey com
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: QoS/CoS interest
> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 8:16 PM
>
> At 06:06 PM 05/21/97 -0400, Peter wrote:
>
> > Seems this would be easy to do in netflow switching.  Also sounds a lot
> > like FECN/BECN in frame relay.
>
> Sounds alot to me like sanity -- using the existing hooks
> in IPv4 to deliver differentiated classes of service by using
> the IP precedence bits in the TOS portion of the IP header.
>
> - paul
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