Subject: Re: [rtcweb] [Cake] [rmcat] Catching up on diffserv markings

From: Harald Alvestrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:37:20 +0100

Den 23. okt. 2015 15:31, skrev Loganaden Velvindron:
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> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Justin Uberti <[email-masked]
> <mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
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>     At present I'm not aware of any widely-deployed OS where an app can
>     read the received ECN markings. 
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>     iOS9 added support for this within the kernel, and it's used for
>     TCP, but not exposed to userspace. There is an open Radar bug asking
>     for this info to be exposed to userspace.
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>     FWIW, Chrome supports setting the DSCP markings if you set a magic
>     parameter. But it's not on by default, mainly because we've never
>     done the auditing necessary to ensure this doesn't randomly break in
>     various dimly-lit parts of the internet.
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> dimly-lit ? You mean regions like Africa ?

I suspect the clients laboring in the deep shadows of the corporate
networks, where no information passes out without having survived the
gauntlet of the All-Seeing Firewall, are more likely to fall into the
"dimly-lit" category.

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