[nsp] Inbound QOS/COS?

jlewis at lewis.org jlewis at lewis.org
Sun Jul 20 16:58:57 EDT 2003


On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Sean Mathias wrote:

> So for the life of me, I am stuck trying to find a way to essentially
> shape inbound traffic on our edge router.  The basic problem I am trying
> to solve is to guarantee a certain application a set amount of bandwidth
> (voip) inbound, outbound is not an issue.  I have looked at most of the
> options, and they all seem to be relative to outbound traffic.  Is there
> a way to have the border router (which is the choke point) prefer and
> accept traffic matching an access list and drop or delay other traffic
> during peak times?

It's pretty hard for the receiving router to control (prioritize) the 
traffic it receives.  To do this right, you have to do it on the sending 
router.

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