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CONFIGURING QUALITY OF

 

 

SERVICE

Quality of Service (QoS) provides the ability to implement QoS and priority queuing within a network. For example, certain types of traffic that require minimal delay, such as Voice, Video, and real-time traffic can be assigned a high priority queue, while other traffic can be assigned a lower priority queue. The result is an improved traffic flow for traffic with high demand. QoS is defined by:

Classification — Specifies which packet fields are matched to specific values. All packets matching the user-defined specifications are classified together.

Action — Defines traffic management where packets are forwarded are based on packet information, and packet field values such as VLAN Priority Tag (VPT) and DiffServ Code Point (DSCP).

VPT Classification Information VLAN Priority Tags (VPT) are used to classify packets by mapping packets to one of the egress queues. VPT to Queue assignments are user-definable. Packets arriving untagged are assigned a default VPT value, which is set on a per-port basis. The assigned VPT is used to map the packet to the egress queue.

This section contains information for configuring QoS, and includes the following topics:

Viewing CoS Settings

Defining CoS

Viewing CoS to Queue

Defining CoS to Queue

Viewing DSCP to Queue

Configuring DSCP Queue

Configuring Trust Settings

Viewing Bandwidth Settings

Defining Bandwidth Settings

Defining Voice VLAN

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