RE: QoS for Office365

["Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>]

Using Orifice 342 will hurt you.

Packet loss (the more the better) will only help you.

--
The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka
> Sent: Monday, 8 July, 2019 15:50
> To: Robert Webb
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: QoS for Office365
>
>
>
> On 8/Jul/19 21:03, Robert Webb wrote:
> > I took the OP's request as for doing QoS at the edge of their
> network
> > and not necessarily the entire path.
>
> Indeed, but even then, you could be handing off the traffic to a
> downstream customer, and can't guarantee what they do to those ToS
> fields.
>
>
> > As another person stated, the real answer is to add more bandwidth
> if
> > you are having to QoS to Office365 because it is affecting other
> > internet based services.
>
> Yes and no.
>
> More bandwidth never hurt anyone, but packet loss in the remote
> network
> toward the cloud will hurt you.
>
> Mark.