IP & QoS

• original goal in IP

  TOS bits "used to indicate the quality of the service desired”
  

• "guide the selection of the actual service parameters when transmitting a datagram through a particular network”

  provide Delay, Throughput, and Reliability priorities
  
  but intended to be used only within a network

• may become useful for routing and queuing (RFC1122)

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