On 6th February 2014, Brian Carpenter said, in part: > We designed diffserv for this purpose and it works well > and is quite widely used in corporate networks.
Yes. Purely as an example, one of my clients is using the IP ToS/DSCP byte to distinguish between various kinds of traffic inside their large enterprise network. It works well for them. I also will note that some existing low-cost "consumer" router/switch products for sale off-the-shelf (in multiple countries on various continents) already include support for DiffServ/IP-ToS. As near as I can tell, this has been true for at least 5 years now. So some folks' residential in-home networks might already support DiffServ/IP-ToS without any home user configuration needed. > Wasting prefixes to distinguish traffic types is an incredibly bad idea. I could not agree more with that sentence just above. Wasting prefixes is a terribly dangerous idea. The IETF really OUGHT NOT (emphasis intentional) endorse, support, or approve of any form of prefix misuse. Yours, Ran _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
