Hi,

Can someone tell me more information on the QoS used in Smartmesh?

My understanding is within the Mesh, the traffic is prioritised automagically. Is this influenced by DSCP? Is there any talk of being able to set the DSCP by the APs?

Currently all traffic coming out of the APs are not marked in any way and so are treated as best effort on the LAN. Are we expected to prioritise the traffic ourselves on the LAN?

Cheers.

philr, we preserve the DiffServ marking througout the Mesh and we prioritize traffic based on the ToS bits. If the ToS bits are not set we inspect the traffic and may recognize Voice or Video traffic (based on traffic patterns) and will prioritize the traffic accordingly.

When you say ‘all traffic coming out of the APs is not marked’, do you mean to say that ToS/DiffServ marked wireless traffic egresses the APs Ethernet port as unmarked? Do you have packet captures to ‘proof’ this?

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