Re: [ILUG] SMTP bandwidth throttling

From: Nick Murtagh (nickm at domain go2.ie)
Date: Wed 11 Sep 2002 - 19:33:29 IST


On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 10:11, Matthew French wrote:
> AFAIK, IP6 partially solves this by having 4 levels of traffic priority? I
> am sure someone more knowledgeable will correct me.

Well IPv4 and IPv6 both have an 8-bit TOS field. IPv6 also has flow
labels which can be used to guarantee levels of service for different
"flows"... but all this depends on end-to-end router support for
anything useful to happen.

Nick



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