Thinking about a SRP527W

[scant.regard]

Looks like a good solution with QoS, so can anyone tell me about how that actually works, ie does it need any configuration or will the ISP be able to manage it?

[Andrew Hickman]

Hi,

The QoS mechanism on the SRP provides traffic shaping to suit your upstream connection service.

Within this shaped bandwidth, the SRP supports one priority queue (for real time traffic) and four weighted round robin queues to prioritise the remaining traffic.

Traffic may be classified (and therefore queued) by:

     Application (destination port)

     Source MAC address

     Source Ethernet Port

     Source VLAN

     Destination IP Address (host or range)

Once classified and queued, the SRP can also (re)mark traffic using CoS (layer 2) or DSCP (layer 3) as it is sent to the network.

Hope thins helps,

Andy

[scant.regard]

Awesome, thanks.

So QoS as a protocol does not actually apply to downstream traffic or is it implementation specific.

Thanks again for writing.

[Andrew Hickman]

Correct, QoS is just for outbound traffic.  Scheduling in the other direction would be carried out by the service provider (if they offer such a service).

Regards,

Andy