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QoS routing protocol

after1111
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Does RIPv2 support QoS and do you support QoS running on it?

Thanks

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Peter Paluch
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hello,

No, RIP (in any version) is not QoS aware. The only metric it knows about is the hop count, irrespective of the required QoS parameters.

As a matter of fact, there is no widely deployed QoS-aware routing protocol. While some protocols do take transmission characteristics of a path into account (EIGRP considers the bandwidth and delay, both static parameters; OSPF considers the bandwidth, again statically only), they do not do so in order to provide different paths for different traffic classes but rather to initialize the link costs to some sensible values.

There is a relatively new technology available for EIGRP, OSPF and IS-IS called Multi-Topology Routing that allows creating several logical Layer3 topologies above a single physical Layer3 topology. This feature could be possibly used to create a set of different routed topologies for different traffic classes, and then a form of Policy Based Routing could be used to manually map traffic into these topologies. However, even this approach is more general and using it for QoS purposes is only one of many possible implementations.

QoS-aware routing is currently a field of research.

Best regards,

Peter

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