[c-nsp] QoS best practices

[Peter Rathlev]

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 09:46 +1300, Raymond Lucas wrote:
> Agree with others about RFC4594 being a particularly good discussion
> of what different types of traffic there are and appropriate markings.

Thank you all for the pointers. I seems that RFC4594 is indeed a good
reference.

> For quick Cisco overviews the "At a Glance" documents are quite good -
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk543/tk759/tech_white_papers_list.html.

I like the "at-a-glance" papers; they seem perfect for arguing that it's
a good idea to spend some time actually defining policies based on
business needs, instead of assuming that it's only a matter of
configuration. :-)

> Also the Cisco Enterprise QoS Solution Reference Network Design Guide is
> quite good going through recommended markings and then excruciating detail
> on how to implement on all sorts of different platforms.

I have previously read the QoS SRND, but I must say I'm not impressed. I
know by testing that e.g. Auto-QoS doesn't solve the buffering problems
(it actually seems to worsen it) and I find the SRND somewhat
mechanically written. I may just have had a bad day though. :-)

-- 
Peter