[c-nsp] QoS best practices

Brian Turnbow b.turnbow at twt.it
Thu Oct 15 05:55:30 EDT 2009




>The 3560 buffering discussion has reminded me:

>It's not hard to find documentation on configuring QoS, but I haven't
>yet found any "best practices" reagarding how to specifically classify,
<i.e. what traffic goes in what queue with what DSCP/CoS marking.

RFC 4594 is a good start

>For VoIP it seems there are some notes, so it seems very "best
practice"
>to use EF for voice traffic and AF31 for signaling. But what about all
>other traffic?

This is cisco's. I recently got into a discussion with another supplier
about AF31
As a Cisco shop we used AF31 for VoIP signalling, they used CS5 as per
RFC4594. So 
Even here it is not so clear. 

Brian


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