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RE: QoS for Office365


From: <adamv0025 () netconsultings com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 21:01:56 +0100

Warren Kumari
Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 8:06 PM

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:59 PM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:



On 8/Jul/19 20:50, Warren Kumari wrote:

Depends -- I'd note that the OP said "How can we mark the trafic
while keeping the security..." -- some people use the COS / DSCP
bits to annotate packets with security information, and use that to
make *security decisions* instead of using it to prioritize traffic.
Now, I'm not saying that this is why the OP is asking (or that I
think it is a good idea, because, well,  I don't think it is!), but
it *is* a practice worth knowing about.

Assuming we are discussing such packets traversing the public
Internet, a little tricky to expect IPP/DSCP values to remain intact
in the life of an Internet packet.

Goodness no -- I've only ever seen this done within a single network
(including inside some tunnels); expecting this to work across the Big I-
internet is crazypants time. I personally think that the idea itself is stupid,
but, well, their network, their rules, and it "works" for them.

And yet the SD-WAN promising MPLS experience over the internet and other BS sells like crazy ;)

adam


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