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Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic


From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 15:06:59 -0400



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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Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/


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