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Chapter 33 Configuring QoS
Configuring Standard QoS
Policing Guidelines
Note To use policing, the switch must be running the LAN Base image.
• The port ASIC device, which controls more than one physical port, supports 256 policers
(255 user-configurable policers plus 1 policer reserved for system internal use). The maximum
number of user-configurable policers supported per port is 63. Policers are allocated on dem and by
the software and are constrained by the hardware and ASIC boundaries. You cannot reserve policers
per port; there is no guarantee that a port will be assigned to any policer.
• Only one policer is applied to a packet on an ingress port. Only the average rate and committed burst
parameters are configurable.
Note Catalyst 2960-S switches do not support ingress queueing.
• On a port configured for QoS, all traffic received through the port is classified, pol iced, and marked
according to the policy map attached to the port. On a trunk port configured for QoS, traffic in all
VLANs received through the port is classified, policed, and marked according to the policy map
attached to the port.
• If you have EtherChannel ports configured on your switch, you must configure QoS classification,
policing, mapping, and queueing on the individual physical por ts that comprise the EtherChannel.
You must decide whether the QoS configuration should match on all ports in the EtherChannel .
• If you need to modify a policy map of an existing QoS policy, first remove the policy map from all
interfaces, and then modify or copy the policy map. After you finish the modification, apply the
modified policy map to the interfaces. If you do not first remove the policy map from all interfaces,
high CPU usage can occur, which, in turn, can cause the console to pause for a very long time.
General QoS Guidelines
These are general QoS guidelines:
• You configure QoS only on physical ports; there is no support for it at the VLAN level.
• Control traffic (such as spanning-tree bridge protocol data units [BPDUs] and routing update
packets) received by the switch are subject to all ingress QoS processing.
Note Catalyst 2960-S switches do not support ingress queueing.
• You are likely to lose data when you change queue settings; therefore, try to make change s when
traffic is at a minimum.