[AusNOG] QoS on Internet traffic

[Jamie Baddeley]

On 19 August 2017 at 16:57, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 01:00:39PM +1000, Paul Wilkins wrote:
> > If your client sites have redundant links, you can get massive
> performance
> > benefit by routing bulk transfer via the backup path.
> >
> > As for there is no QoS on the internet, that's mostly because US service
> > providers are legislatively blocked from what would be a departure from
> net
> > neutrality.
>
> <eyeroll>
>
> It's got nothing to do with Net Neutrality.  If it was, (a) it would have
> happened long before any of that got started, and (b) the rest of the
> world,
> which is not similarly constrained, would be doing it, and everything would
> be just peachy.
>
> No, the problem with QoS on the Internet is the same as allowing senders to
> mark e-mails with priorities: everyone thinks *their* traffic is important,
> so everyone marks their packets / e-mails as "TOP PRIORITY", and you're
> back
> to exactly the same situation you're in now, where everything's best-effort
> and nobody is particularly happy.
>
> - Matt
>
> Indeed. There is no QoS on the Internet because Best Effort is the only
standard everyone can agree on. Of course some 'Best Efforts' are better
than others, but that's life.

Now, you can use some of the various techniques described in this thread.
But that's not QoS. It's just making a better effort. Which is good.

jamie
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