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Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic

  • From: Eric A. Hall
  • Date: Wed May 25 15:08:23 2005 
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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