Quality of Service in IP Networks

IP networks were designed some 25 years ago.  Networks based on TCP/IP are
widely deployed, as organization-local Intranets as well as in the Internet
itself.  The usage patterns of those networks change.  Especially new 
technologies like voice-over-IP as well as streaming multimedia applications
have different requirements on the underlying network infrastructure than 
bulk data transfers like ftp/www or interactive traffic like telnet/ssh.

Organizations usually run a mixture of different services on their Internet
uplinks or on their organization-internal wide area networks.  Bandwidth is 
usually a limited ressource, so everybody wants to divide bandwidth between
different services according to his specific needs. 

Linux always had a very strong focus on network functionality and has
sophisticated means for bandwidth control / QoS since Kernel 2.2.

The presentation is organized in the following parts:
	Basics of QoS in IP networks
	How can Linux help with QoS
	Sample scenarios of Linux-based QoS solutions
	Overview about advanced conecpts (DiffServ, IntServ, RSVP, ...)