nanog mailing list archives

Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic


From: Saku Ytti <saku+nanog () ytti fi>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 21:50:03 +0300


On (2005-05-25 14:44 -0400), Eric A. Hall wrote:
 
4) The default of no-modify should also apply to non-payinng customers
since they may be flagging their packets for special processing on their
own networks (and they don't want the flags to poof away when the traffic
crosses your hop).

 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?

In sum, premium packages are for expedited processing, which is what they
are buying. Rewriting any packets without consent/request is not needed
and unrelated, and is bad mojo in general.

-- 
  ++ytti


Current thread: