QoS for Office365

Mon Jul 8 22:40:11 UTC 2019

On 9/Jul/19 00:35, Warren Kumari wrote:

> I disagree -- you *can* guarantee what someone else will do with your
> ToS fields....... they will A: ignore them and / or B: scribble all
> over them.

I'll rephrase... you can't guarantee that a remote network will handle
your packets the way you intend.

> At a previous employer (AOL, doing VoIP for customer service / call
> centers, ~2004) we had a number of contractual agreements with
> multiple providers to honor our QoS markings -- as far as I could tell
> (marking test traffic under congestion events) only one of about seven
> did anything at all with the marking, and that wasn't enough to make
> any difference... I briefly toyed with the idea of asking for some
> money back / trying to enforce the terms of the agreements, but
> figured that there wasn't much point - expecting QoS to work in
> someone else's network based upon your markings seems like a fool's
> errand.

Agreed.

I would, though, say that I admire that you went as far as ringing up
contracts on the back of this.

Mark.