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Chris L. Morrow wrote: > Then there's the interesting: "How do you classify 'to be dropped' > traffic?" Simon suggests nntp or BitTorrent could be put into a lower > class queue, I'm curious as to how you'd classify traffic which is > port-agile such as BitTorrent though. In theory that sounds like a grand > plan, in practice it isn't simple... It really depends on the network. Not all networks are the same. Case in point we have some network that carries a lot of video. Obviously we want all the channels to get from point A to point B, but there are services that really can be classed as "best effort"; like the VOD stuff. In most cases if VOD becomes unavailable, "so what". You can always watch it later when it's available again. Of course you want those types of services to always be available, but sometimes spending the $$$ to make that kind of thing four or five nines isn't built into the business case. -- Robert Blayzor INOC [email protected] http://www.inoc.net/~rblayzor/ YOUR PC's broken and I'VE got a problem? -- The BOFH Slogan
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