QoS for Office365

Mon Jul 8 23:00:57 UTC 2019

Using Orifice 342 will hurt you.

Packet loss (the more the better) will only help you.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka
>Sent: Monday, 8 July, 2019 15:50
>To: Robert Webb
>Cc: NANOG list
>Subject: Re: QoS for Office365
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>On 8/Jul/19 21:03, Robert Webb wrote:
>> I took the OP's request as for doing QoS at the edge of their
>network
>> and not necessarily the entire path.
>
>Indeed, but even then, you could be handing off the traffic to a
>downstream customer, and can't guarantee what they do to those ToS
>fields.
>
>
>>
>> As another person stated, the real answer is to add more bandwidth
>if
>> you are having to QoS to Office365 because it is affecting other
>> internet based services.
>
>Yes and no.
>
>More bandwidth never hurt anyone, but packet loss in the remote
>network
>toward the cloud will hurt you.
>
>Mark.