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List:       ipng
Subject:    (IPng 3973) Re: Qry on Traffic Policing (IPv6 header
From:       Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco ! com>
Date:       1997-06-11 14:07:18
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At 04:15 PM 06/11/97 +0300, Koskelainen Petri wrote:

>
>Yes, but excess traffic is only one issue. Much more important issue
>is the applications ability to mark some packets with
>"drop this in the case of congestion" label thus increasing
>the propability of applications other packets delivery.
>
>Currently there is no way for applications to do so and I certainly
>believe that such is needed in the (near) future A/V applications.
>

With IPv4, it is trivial to do this by using the IP precedence to
weight the probability of drop in congestion instances. This can
either be set by the origin application, or policed by the network
ingress point.

Draw your own comparisons to what is possible with IPv6.

- paul

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