RFC 3246 says the edge of a DS domain SHOULD strictly police EF-marked packets to a rate negotiated with the adjacent upstream domain, so EF traffic exceeding that rate can be dropped at the boundary.
Checked 2026-10-02
the edge of a DS domain SHOULD strictly police all EF marked packets to a rate negotiated with the adjacent upstream domain
- Vendor
- not restricted
- Product
- not restricted
- Subsystem
- Expedited Forwarding PHB
- Deployment
- any
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- RFC 3246
- Checked
- 2026-10-02
Sources
- RFC 3246: An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior) — IETF / RFC Editor · tier 1 standards and regulators · Section 3
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). Troubleshooting voice QoS markings that are stripped or ignored: source note voice-qos-troubleshooting-rfc3246-ef-edge-policing. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/voice-qos-troubleshooting-rfc3246-ef-edge-policing
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-voice-qos-troubleshooting-rfc3246-ef-edge-policing,
title = {Troubleshooting voice QoS markings that are stripped or ignored: source note voice-qos-troubleshooting-rfc3246-ef-edge-policing},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/voice-qos-troubleshooting-rfc3246-ef-edge-policing},
note = {Source note voice-qos-troubleshooting-rfc3246-ef-edge-policing, checked 2026-10-02}
}