begin quoting Chris Seberino as of Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:07:55PM -0800: > IPv6 has the ability to allow you to set the "quality of service" > of a packet. This is kinda like a "priority" for it. > > It would seem people would always abuse this feature > and always set *their* packets to be TOP PRIORITY all the time.
Well, you have per-byte or per-packet costs.... multiplied according to a table indexed by priority. The telcos would LOVE this. > I don't see how "quality of service" can ever work in networking > between untrusted parties. _Routing_ across an untrusted network is tricky enough. Most of the routing protocols I'm aware of are trivially abused; it's just that if they're TOO obnoxous, they'll stand out, and be removed from consideration... and there's no reason to try to claim more traffic than you can handle. Where it becomes useful is on a trusted network... Your ISP has a big, fat pipe, and you get a little straw to your desktop; if you set varying priorities, you can (in theory) manage to watch a video while playing in the nethack tournament... your video would have a high-priority, and your nethack session would be low-priority (or, depending on your fanaticism, vice-versa). -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
