Re: QoS on incoming traffic ?

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:11:59PM -0500, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> As i understand now, QoS (a.k.a Diffserv, RSVP via traffic control) can be
> applied only to traffic going out on an interface.
> 
> Is this understanding correct, or is it possible to shape incoming traffic
> too ?

	Of course that kind of things can be done also for
	incoming traffic, but what is the point ?

	You want to QoS control the dataflood before it hits
	bandwidth constrained link, not after random dropping
	of packets has made the QoS irrelevant.


> Regards,
> Amit
> -- 
>                   Amit Kucheria
>          University of Kansas @ Lawrence

/Matti Aarnio
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