-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Vadim Antonov Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 7:18 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth [deleted, lots of good ideas and suggestions. I agree with essentially all of it] Another area which needs improvement is making L2 switches similarly aware of community TOS in IP packets. --- Why would an L2 switch need or even want to be aware of TOS? Wouldn't this be a Class 3/4..7 issue? If community TOS is supported, those guys that would benefit from awareness of it in their internal network would address this at a higher level switch I'd think. I took your suggestion as a "best effort" below "normal" effort for "community" TOS. I could be mistaken. Deepak Jain AiNET