Subject: Re: [Diffserv] QOS, RSVP, Differential Services, Integrated Services and IPv6

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:14:28 EDT

In a message dated 4/5/00 8:40:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email-masked] 
writes:

> In some cases, yes. On relatively low speed lines, some routers use PPP 
>  Multilink, even on a single line, in order to get the fragmentation and 
>  reassembly. VoIP data goes in the PPP IPCP stream, TCP data goes via the 
ML 
>  LCP.

Of course, such a procedure would not work for FR unless PPP were run
over the FR or on a lot of the new wireless technologies.

>  The place where this becomes unnecessary is when the speed of the link is 
>  fast enough that the jitter introduced by competing traffic is within 
>  acceptable bounds. That rate is on the order of megabits per second; for 
>  most equipment, T-1 links don't require this.

Not obvious.

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