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From: "Philip A. Prindeville" <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:25:24 -0700

> I agree with the notion that certain values should be set side-wide
> (or at least system-wide) to prevent malicious users from exploiting
> QoS...  that's why I've been advocating for QoS settings to be
> specified in a system configuration file, and not a per-user
> configuration file.

So I can set whatever I want on my personal workation.

I'm sure sysadmins will be happy about that.

Look, this doesn't work.  QoS handling and policy belongs in the
egress point to the network, it's the only way to control this
properly and prevent abuse.