On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 01:00:39PM +1000, Paul Wilkins wrote: > If your client sites have redundant links, you can get massive performance > benefit by routing bulk transfer via the backup path. > > As for there is no QoS on the internet, that's mostly because US service > providers are legislatively blocked from what would be a departure from net > neutrality.
<eyeroll> It's got nothing to do with Net Neutrality. If it was, (a) it would have happened long before any of that got started, and (b) the rest of the world, which is not similarly constrained, would be doing it, and everything would be just peachy. No, the problem with QoS on the Internet is the same as allowing senders to mark e-mails with priorities: everyone thinks *their* traffic is important, so everyone marks their packets / e-mails as "TOP PRIORITY", and you're back to exactly the same situation you're in now, where everything's best-effort and nobody is particularly happy. - Matt -- One of the Rules Of Flight is, or should be: Pullout Altitude Is Not A Signed Quantity. -- Anthony de Boer, in the monastery _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog