[nsp] BGP sessions drop during DOS and general DOS protections.

Danny McPherson danny at tcb.net
Tue Jul 22 10:08:34 EDT 2003


On 7/22/03 2:43 AM, "Glen Turner" <glen.turner at aarnet.edu.au> wrote:

....

> Most ISPs don't have a good QoS architecture (eg: they'll
> happily transit packets with DSCP=48 rather than altering
> transiting DSCP=48 packets to DSCP=0).  Experiments on
> random paths through the Internet show that DSCP=40 traffic
> gets about 4* the service of a DSCP=0 packet.

Glen,
Can you provide any pointers to these "experiments"?
Although I quite agree many folks likely have priority
queuing stuff enabled in their networks and aren't
aware of it, I'm a bit skeptical that packets spend
that much time in queues, regardless.

-danny



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