Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:16:10 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: Network QoS support in applications
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:51:55 +0200

> Let's take a bittorrent client as an example. The traffic it generates
> is not important and it doesn't matter if bittorrent packets have
> lower priority compared to other streams. What SO_PRIORITY value
> should all bittorrent clients to use to mark their packets as low
> priority (for example background class from IEEE 802.1d Annex G).

This is a local policy decision.

There is no universal way of doing any of this, really.