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From: Henning Rogge <henning.rogge@fkie.fraunhofer.de>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Network QoS support in applications
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:06:59 +0100
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On Tue January 26 2010 13:56:50 Kalle Valo wrote:
> So the idea is that the three left most bits (Class Selector
> Codepoints from DiffServ RFC 2474) would contain these values from
> IEEE 802.1d-2004 Annex G:
>=20
> 0 best effort
> 1 background
> 2 (spare)
> 3 excellent effort
> 4 controlled load
> 5 video
> 6 voice
> 7 network control
>=20
> What do people think of this?
The IETF is discussing about a traffic priority below "best effort" for bul=
k=20
traffic at the moment. Something you use to fill up links if your can but d=
rop it=20
if you are not sure. So it might be a good idea to make "best efford" not z=
ero.

Henning Rogge
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