We covered QoS tagging the other day, but that just marks packets. I think you’re old enough now that we should actually do some policing. Policing is where you restrict the amount of bandwidth that a flow or set of flows can use. For example, say you have a site that serves webpages to...

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I’ve been trying to get some experience on Cisco VOIP, and, as you probably know, Quality of Service (QoS) is quite important in that realm. Since VOIP is very time-sensitive, you have to be sure your gear delivers the voice packets first. A packet in an HTTP transaction can wait another 200ms without any...

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