As far as I newbie know, ToS does mean a flag within the TCP header.
Therewith a router capable of doing QoS can make decisions.
QoS is a traffic management concerning different services.
While your service provider usually knows QoS you do a good thing to
mark your (important) packets with your shorewall without doing the
shaping yourself.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Paolo
Am Donnerstag, den 28.07.2005, 14:33 -0400 schrieb Chip
Burke:> Okay, I am trying to get my head around ToS. I think I fully
> understand QoS, but how does ToS figure into the equation? Does QoS
> look at ToS? Or are they mutually exclusive? I have read about a dozen
> wikipedia articles and they seem like the same thing practically to
> me. The only thing I can really figure is QoS divides the bandwidth
> where as ToS changes what order a packet will leave an interface. So
> if you have 128k devoted to FTP and 256k devoted to HTTP through QoS,
> ToS for FTP is 16 and 0 for HTTP, will FTP just leave sooner but still
> be limited to 128k? Why would you use one or the other or both? If
> this isn’t the place to ask such things, does any one have a link to
> somewhere that would know?
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