Re: Possible to prioritise BGP keepalive messages ?

Hi Folks,

Just my 2 cents on this... Interesting TechPub articles, influencing of hostbound traffic egressing can be done in two ways. All host-bound traffic or specific protocols.

Default Routing Engine Protocol Queue Assignments

http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/general/hw-cos-default-re-queues-reference-cos-config-guide-l2.html

Changing the Default Queuing and Marking of Host Outbound Traffic

We can configure the COS to put all host bound traffic in to queue3 and reduce the traffic rate in queue3. This configuration will applicable for all the locally generated traffic including ICMP.

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos14.1/topics/concept/hw-cos-default-re-traffic-overview-cos-config-guide.html

Understanding Queuing and Marking of Host Outbound Traffic

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/cos-host-outbound-traffic-default-classification-and-dscp-remarking.html

We can specifically match protocols and assign it in to specific queue.

https://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.2/topics/usage-guidelines/cos-assigning-fc-dscp-to-re-pkts.html

Assigning Forwarding Class and DSCP Value for Routing Engine-Generated Traffic

http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/configuration-statement/host-outbound-traffic-edit-cos.html