snipping a little for clarity and brevity. response below -- ""Jenny McLeod"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > snip > > > > > I am getting confused at this point, should it be possible to > > have IP, > > > IPX and QoS all at the same time? > > > > > > CL: sure, they can all be configured simultaneously. To > > clarify, so far as > > I know, QoS settings can apply only to IP traffic, or to > > traffic clssified > > by MAC address. You cannot apply QoS to IPX or any other non IP > > protocol > > except by that means. Well, let me qualify that by saying that > > on the 3550 > > you can add a few other L2 protocols such as DecNet and NetBIOS > > for QoS in a > > switched environment. > > > JMcL: What are you considering "QoS" to be? In my mind, QoS covers a whole > suite of techniques, many of which are entirely applicable to IPX or > anything else you can specify in an access list. > For example, I consider priority queuing to be a QoS technique - and it > works with IPX and several other non-IP protocols. > Sure, some QoS techniques are specific to IP, but not all...
CL being a Cisco lab rat, I'm following along with my perception of Cisco's direction. Meaning that QoS is classification and marking, policing and shaping, congestion management, congestion avoidance, and link efficiency. Cisco included priority queueing and custom queueing as a part of congestion management, but the emphasis is clearly towards CBWFQ and LLQ. CL: sure, according to Cisco, QoS is the means for "accellerating the deployment of intelligent network services by enabling predictable response for application traffic" which is broad enough to make a good freeway. CL: as an aside, Cisco appears to be gradually moving away from IPX support. The 3550 line of switches has no IPX specific features, for example, but plenty of IP specific features. This reflects the marketplace, which is moving away from native IPXand into native IP on Novell boxes. Now if only we could get rid of DLSw :-> CL: to get this back to the original question, can you have IP, IPX, and QoS enabled simultaneously, the answer is sure, assuming you have the appropriate IOS image. In terms of QoS for IPX, sure, priority queueing and custom queueing are about all you can do. > snip Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=55560&t=55373 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
