Chapter 13: Class of Service
Class of Service (CoS) allows you to specify which data packets have greater
precedence when traffic is buffered in the switch due to congestion. This switch
supports CoS with eight priority queues for each port. Data packets in a port ’s
high-priority queue will be transmitted before those in the lower-priority queues. You
can set the default priority for each interface, and configure t he mapping of fram e
priority tags to the switch’s priority queues.

Layer 2 Queue Settings

Setting the Default Priority for Interfaces

You can specify the default port priority for each interface on the switch. All untagged
packets entering the switch are tagged with the specified default port priority, and
then sorted into the appropriate priority queue at the output port.
Command Usage
• This switch provides eight priority queues for each po rt. It uses Weighte d Round
Robin to prevent head-of-queue blockage.
• The default priorit y ap pl i es for a n untagged frame received on a p or t set to accept
all frame types (i.e, receives both untagged and tagged frames) . T his pr iority d oe s
not apply to IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagged frames. If the incoming frame is an IEEE
802.1Q VLAN tagged frame, the IEEE 802.1p User Priority bits will be used.
• If the output port is an untagged member of the associated VLAN, these frames are
stripped of all VLAN tags prior to transmission.
Command Attributes
• Default Priority15 – The priori ty that is ass igned to untagged frames received on
the specified interface. (Range: 0 - 7, Default: 0)
• Number of Egress Traffic Classes – The number of queue buffers provided for
each port.
15. CLI displays this information as “Priority for untagged traffic.”
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