On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:44, Tomas Bonnedahl wrote:
> to get most out of qos in general, would the best thing be to set up qos on
> both ends of a bottleneck with both ingress and egress filtering? the
> reason for asking is because we have a 2mbit connection with egress
> filtering qos, the problem is that we experience most downloads compared to
> uploades and therefor the egress filtering doesnt provide much help.
>
> what we could do is to get ingress filtering on our side here, but i dont
> know how much that would help really, the data has already passed the
> bottleneck in the path. so, my question, would i experience any different
> delay if adding ingress filtering?
Yes. A tcp connection will throttle down if you drop packets. But this is
not the same as egress shaping.
> it is a 2mbit fiber stub network which looks pretty much like this:
>
> lan - router - fw - isp - internet
>
> the egress qos is at the moment at the router which pretty much says
> "prioritize interactive sessions".
>
>
> since the filtering for qos is rather simple, just telnet/ssh to a certain
> host, should i contact my isp and ask them to set some egress qos going to
> our network on the cisco router that is at their place? btw, anyone know
> how good the qos is on cisco 2600?
I have no idea how the qos works on cisco router.
Just give it a try and se what happens.
Stef
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