[nsp] Cisco 2950 & QoS

[John Pang]

Hi everyone,

I was thinking of implementing some form of simple
QoS/rate-limiting on my edge network which connects to
the outside world and came across the Cisco 2950
series switches.

Assuming my internet connection comes in the form of
an Ethernet connection, instead of getting my edge
routers (i.e. Cisco 2621) to run QoS, would it be
possible to connect as follows:

      C2621 -> C2950 -> Internet

So that in this way the 2621 will not be bogged down
doing QoS and ratelimit stuff?

If such a config is feasible, would the ratelimiting &
QoS on the 2950 be able to prevent excessively high
packet counts and bandwidth from hitting the 2621?

Last but not least, will the 2950 appear as another
hop on the path to the internet or it is fundamentally
still a switch and is "transparent"?

Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions,


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