I think that nowdays DSCP is more needed than TOS (TOS can only manipulate part of the bits in that field. DSCP have more bits to manipulate)
On 4/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm an enterprise WAN guy and have made good use of setting TOS in our > network: > > - Site/access routers set TOS bits on incoming packets, burning up > a bit of cpu. Hub/core routers can then queue based on those TOS bits > without needing to re-evaluate the packets. > > - I heard of some Microsoft traffic being put on the wire with higher > priority TOS then normal. Typical routers on typical circuits > respect TOS - cisco routers on T1s default to "weighted fair queueing." I > like being able to control TOS bits on the corporate WAN. > > - I look at manipulating TOS on the internal network as a capability > similar to tagging, except I can "tag" (with TOS) a packet in one place > and queue off that "tag" in another place. > > Set TOS or no Set TOS, I'll still be taking over the world with OpenBSD/PF > routers! I have some pretty demanding site-to-site VPN stuff I am working > on moving from cisco to OpenBSD and it'll work out either way. :-) > > Thanks! > Mike > > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * Steven Philip Schubiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-15 10:51]: > >> On 13 Apr, Lars Hansson wrote: > >> > >> : Naturally TOS is only really usefull on your own network. If you have a > >> : fairly large internal network, say a campus of some sort, being able to > >> : mark packets with TOS and also assign packets to queues depending on > >> : TOS value can come in very handy. > >> > >> Could the usability of such an addition be confirmed by familiar > >> developers, before we step further? > > > > last time we looked into that we didn't come up with a good keyword if > > memory serves, and the usefullness was a bit questionable. I have no > > strong opinion here, but without the right keyword this is not going to > > fly no matter what. > > > > -- > > Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > BS Web Services, http://bsws.de > > OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... > > > -- Best regards, Dan
