Unless one has contracted with a private network, one is not likely to find QoS/CoS. However, your bottleneck is likely to be the last mile. Although the ISP router may not be regulating the QoS on the last mile, you can control the ingress and egress through your gateway . . . well, at least the egress and the processing of the ingress - John On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:45 -0500, Gregory G Carter wrote: > Upstream providers such as my ISP here (Time Warner Cable) hardly > support ECN, I would be surprised if they did. > > For example, the crappy Zyxel cable modems they put out here don't > support ECN notification, so the first thing they do when they overflow > due to high amounts of traffic is simple shut down, most of them just crash. > > I have to put rate limiting policies on all my routers connected to > these modems otherwise they simply die when you try and push too much > data through them. > > I remember when Time Warner was using ubr9xx routers from Cisco, which > were excellent, but much more expensive of course than the Zyxel. > > If somone like Time Warner can't do ECN, I would hardly expect them to > do traffic prioritization....Oooo....complicated. > > :-) > > -gc > > Rob Sterenborg wrote: > > >>>I just came across one of the threads on the LARTC. > >>>In the thread it had this. > >>> > >>>So my question is, for the following rules, would these increase my > >>>browsing / traffic, and if so, how. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Small packets and control pachets should have priority > >>because they carry intrractive traffic. > >> > >> > > > >Is it true that the upstream (ISP) routers have to support TOS for this > >to work ? > > > > > >Gr, > >Rob > > > > > > > > > -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx If you would like to participate in the development of an open source enterprise class network security management system, please visit http://iscs.sourceforge.net
