On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:41:54 -0800 (PST), "David Barak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Simple. You give the consumer the ability to fiddle > > with > > the QoS settings on the provider's edge router > > interface. > > After all, they are paying for the access link. > > eeek! I assume you mean "tell the customer what > DSCP/whatever settings you honor, and let them do the > marking" right? The thought of letting customers > actually make changes to my edge routers would keep me > up at night...
To let customers decide priorities in your backbone is a bad idea, but I don't think that's the issue here. Assuming the customer's link to the network to be the primary bottleneck; there's nothing wrong with giving customers the ability to prioritise traffic on their link, provided that your access-equipment is able to handle queueing etc (given fool-proof mechanisms that enable self-service and keep your NOC out of the loop of course;). //per -- Per Heldal [EMAIL PROTECTED]