On Tue January 26 2010 13:56:50 Kalle Valo wrote:
> So the idea is that the three left most bits (Class Selector
> Codepoints from DiffServ RFC 2474) would contain these values from
> IEEE 802.1d-2004 Annex G:
> 
> 0 best effort
> 1 background
> 2 (spare)
> 3 excellent effort
> 4 controlled load
> 5 video
> 6 voice
> 7 network control
> 
> What do people think of this?
The IETF is discussing about a traffic priority below "best effort" for bulk 
traffic at the moment. Something you use to fill up links if your can but drop it 
if you are not sure. So it might be a good idea to make "best efford" not zero.

Henning Rogge
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