On 9/Jul/19 00:35, Warren Kumari wrote:
I disagree -- you *can* guarantee what someone else will do with your ToS fields....... they will A: ignore them and / or B: scribble all over them.
I'll rephrase... you can't guarantee that a remote network will handle your packets the way you intend.
At a previous employer (AOL, doing VoIP for customer service / call centers, ~2004) we had a number of contractual agreements with multiple providers to honor our QoS markings -- as far as I could tell (marking test traffic under congestion events) only one of about seven did anything at all with the marking, and that wasn't enough to make any difference... I briefly toyed with the idea of asking for some money back / trying to enforce the terms of the agreements, but figured that there wasn't much point - expecting QoS to work in someone else's network based upon your markings seems like a fool's errand.
Agreed. I would, though, say that I admire that you went as far as ringing up contracts on the back of this. Mark.