Nikki Cranley wrote:
I have been reading the RFC's relating to IPv6 for some insight
to the replacement for the ipv4 TOS field.
It would not be surprising if there were no replacement; TOS
turns out to be problematic. It's the usual problem with
unauthenticated priority fields: the network element processing a
packet has no particular reason to believe the sender's
assessment of the packet's priority.
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