BigTitan
09-10-2001, 09:20 AM
This is kinda wierd....
We just found out that on all of our routers (cisco) that HTTP traffic is given the lowest priority. This in and of itself is not a bad thing, as there is other traffic that 90% of the time should take priority over HTTP (printing, routing, etc.), especially considering that 95% of web traffic is non-business related. However, we just released a new online system that is web based, and we'd like to bump up traffic related to this application to get the highest priority.
So here's our problem, we want to bump up the priority for traffic going to and from our prod servers, but not bump up priority for all other traffic. Here's a couple of solutions that won't work:
1. Eliminate access to all non-business websites, and then bump up all HTTP traffic - We were told this was a non-option.
2. Configure the router to bump up traffic bound to or from the specific IP addresses of our prod servers - this to me is the best (and I think only) soloution, but our network guys say that the specific cisco routers we're using are not capable of this. We're supposed to have a meeting with them to discuss this further, but for now, I have to consider it a non-option.
Anyway, I'm trying to do this from the application - i.e. I'm trying to find so that each page can tell the router "Hey - I'm a high priority page! Bump me up!". Any ideas on how to do this?
BTW - We're using an NT network on NT 4.0 machines. Our application is written in ASP and VB COM
Any ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks Good Buddy!
We just found out that on all of our routers (cisco) that HTTP traffic is given the lowest priority. This in and of itself is not a bad thing, as there is other traffic that 90% of the time should take priority over HTTP (printing, routing, etc.), especially considering that 95% of web traffic is non-business related. However, we just released a new online system that is web based, and we'd like to bump up traffic related to this application to get the highest priority.
So here's our problem, we want to bump up the priority for traffic going to and from our prod servers, but not bump up priority for all other traffic. Here's a couple of solutions that won't work:
1. Eliminate access to all non-business websites, and then bump up all HTTP traffic - We were told this was a non-option.
2. Configure the router to bump up traffic bound to or from the specific IP addresses of our prod servers - this to me is the best (and I think only) soloution, but our network guys say that the specific cisco routers we're using are not capable of this. We're supposed to have a meeting with them to discuss this further, but for now, I have to consider it a non-option.
Anyway, I'm trying to do this from the application - i.e. I'm trying to find so that each page can tell the router "Hey - I'm a high priority page! Bump me up!". Any ideas on how to do this?
BTW - We're using an NT network on NT 4.0 machines. Our application is written in ASP and VB COM
Any ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks Good Buddy!