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Now in networking devices, specifically with quality of service, we have the concept of trust and

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a trust boundary.

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Who are you going to trust?

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So as an example, if a switch receives a data packet from a PC, is it going to trust the markings

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if the PC is telling the switch that its traffic is very important?

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Typically a switch will not trust a PC, but a switch may trust the markings from a phone.

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An IP phone, as an example, will tell a switch by using a marking that its traffic is very important.

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A switch needs to be configured to trust that marking from the phone.

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So we have this concept of a trust boundary and untrusted domain is the part of the network that you

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are not managing.

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So it could be a PC, it could be a printer.

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You're not going to trust the marking sent by a user's PC from a quality of service point of view.

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The trusted domain is the part of the network that only administrators can manage, so they are trusted

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devices such as routers and switches and in some cases IP phones.

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A router is going to trust the markings that it receives from a switch, and a switch is going to trust

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the markings that it receives from an IP phone.

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Now, the trust boundary is where packets are classified and marked.

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So as an example, the IP phones are a trust boundary.

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We don't trust the markings to the left of the IP phones, but we do trust the marking sent between

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phones, switches and routers.

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So in an enterprise, any markings received by any of these devices will be trusted.

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A service provider or ISP, however, may not trust the marking sent on packets from customers.

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So this would be a separate trust boundary.

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The ISP will trust any markings of packets in its own domain or in its own network, but may not trust

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the markings sent to it by a enterprise customer.

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In an enterprise network, the trust boundary is typically the edge of the network.

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For an ISP, the trust boundary is typically found at the lost device that it manages.

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So as an example, if the ISP provides you a router that it manages, the trust boundary is set there

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and it will trust any markings of devices that it controls, but not markings received from devices

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that it doesn't control.

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Trust boundaries are important because by default, Cisco routers will override any quality of service

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markings that they receive on an untrusted boundary.

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So voice traffic and video traffic and data traffic will be treated as the same if you don't remark

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that traffic.

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In other words, if a rider receives traffic on an untrusted interface, it will treat it the same,

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which can have a negative effect on quality of service.

