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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:
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic, (continued)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Saku Ytti (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Valdis . Kletnieks (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Saku Ytti (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Saku Ytti (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Eric A. Hall (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Sam Stickland (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Fred Baker (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Alan Hannan (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Eric A. Hall (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Sam Stickland (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Kevin Oberman (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Eric A. Hall (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Saku Ytti (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Eric A. Hall (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic sthaug (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Eric A. Hall (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Saku Ytti (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Lars Erik Gullerud (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Eric A. Hall (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Lars Erik Gullerud (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Mikael Abrahamsson (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Eric A. Hall (May 25)
- Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic Sean Donelan (May 25)