Henning Rogge <henning.rogge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue January 26 2010 13:56:50 Kalle Valo wrote: >> So the idea is that the three left most bits (Class Selector >> Codepoints from DiffServ RFC 2474) would contain these values from >> IEEE 802.1d-2004 Annex G: >> >> 0 best effort >> 1 background >> 2 (spare) >> 3 excellent effort >> 4 controlled load >> 5 video >> 6 voice >> 7 network control >> >> What do people think of this? > > The IETF is discussing about a traffic priority below "best effort" > for bulk traffic at the moment. Something you use to fill up links > if your can but drop it if you are not sure. So it might be a good > idea to make "best efford" not zero. I think 802.1d used zero for best effort to get it as the default. If no class is set, the field will be zero and best effort is used. -- Kalle Valo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
