Re: Type of Service (TOS)

2004-05-10 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 10-mei-04, at 18:57, Vicky Rode wrote: Say if I had a qos appliance installed on networks between a lan and a wan box would the qos policies be carried across wan end points (point to point connection)? In other words, will the router retain the TOS bits across to the other side of the wan c

Re: Type of Service (TOS)

2004-05-10 Thread Scott McGrath
Cisco and Enterasys definitely pass the TOS bits by default. You need to talk to your engineering group to see whether it is your site's policy to propagate TOS bits to make sure the TOS bits set by your appliance will arrive at their destination. Scott C. McGrath

Re: Type of Service (TOS)

2004-05-10 Thread Vicky Rode
Hi, Do you know by default if the routers pass the TOS bits? regards, /vicky Scott McGrath wrote: The answer is it depends. routers _usually_ honor the TOS bits unless they are configured to clear or rewrite them. We use the TOS bits for designating traffic classes so in some cases we rewrite

Re: Type of Service (TOS)

2004-05-10 Thread Scott McGrath
The answer is it depends. routers _usually_ honor the TOS bits unless they are configured to clear or rewrite them. We use the TOS bits for designating traffic classes so in some cases we rewrite the TOS bits set by the host so in your case we would modify the TOS bits.

Type of Service (TOS)

2004-05-10 Thread Vicky Rode
Hi there, Say if I had a qos appliance installed on networks between a lan and a wan box would the qos policies be carried across wan end points (point to point connection)? In other words, will the router retain the TOS bits across to the other side of the wan connection to provide QoS-style