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Custom/Priority Queueing
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> Does anyone have a example of how to route packets based upon service? IE,
> if I have a slow 64kb/s Frame, and a fast DS1, I want to send
> non-interactive traffic over the 64k, like mail, etc., but www/ftp over the
> DS1.
>

You may want to continue utilizing both links for all traffic, but
implement custom or priority queueing on them. The only other alternative
that comes to mind would be extended access lists. Not really sure how
the 2 methods would compare regarding performance or router utilization,
though.

Regards,

Randy Benn
Re: Custom/Priority Queueing [ In reply to ]
>From: rbenn@clark.net
>On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>> Does anyone have a example of how to route packets based upon
service? IE,
>> if I have a slow 64kb/s Frame, and a fast DS1, I want to send
>> non-interactive traffic over the 64k, like mail, etc., but www/ftp
over the
>> DS1.
>>
>
>You may want to continue utilizing both links for all traffic, but
>implement custom or priority queueing on them. The only other
alternative
>that comes to mind would be extended access lists. Not really sure how
>the 2 methods would compare regarding performance or router
utilization,
>though.

Policy routing will allow you to do this.

-rb


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