[Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] [Codel] Latest codel, fq_codel, and pie sim study from cablelabs now available

[Michael Richardson]

>>>>> "Tristan" == Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi at mithrandi.net> writes:
    >> It's pretty easy to configure the Transmission Bittorrent client to mark
    >> packets.
    >> 

    Tristan> Unfortunately this only helps with outgoing traffic. Marking on inbound
    Tristan> traffic is at the mercy of the torrent peer and your ISP (in my case, my
    Tristan> ISP seems to overwrite the TOS/DS field indiscriminately,
    Tristan> not that you

Ultimately, one wants PCP and/or RSVP and/or NSIS from the torrent
client to the local router, as the torrent client knows the 5-tuple of
the incoming packets.  Local router would in utopian world, in a diffedge
scenario be able to communicate that policy to ISP edge router, but at
least, the local router can police that flow.

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