[bf1942] RFE: TOS bits in IP packets

ScratchMonkey ScratchMonkey at SewingWitch.com
Sat Feb 22 08:55:48 EST 2003


--On Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:25 AM +0100 Michiel Brandenburg 
<michielb at stack.nl> wrote:

> Like someone said in this list . "most routers" don't listen to TOS
> bits ..

My desire is for traffic prioritization in the box hosting the game server, 
so end-to-end support isn't needed to get some benefit. And the packets 
will benefit until they hit a router that strips the bits, for each router 
that does honor them.

The code to add the bits (posted earlier) is one line right after the 
socket is created, so it only happens when a player connects. Presumably 
this incurs no cost, since that field must get its value from somewhere as 
the kernel creates each packet.



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