Configuring Quality of Service
This section provides information for defining and configuring Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. To open the Quality of Service page, click Quality of Service in the tree view.
This section contians the following topics:
•"Quality of Service (QoS) Overview" on page 441
•"Configuring QoS Global Settings" on page 443
Quality of Service (QoS) Overview
Quality of Service (QoS) provides the ability to implement QoS and priority queuing within a network.
An implementation example that requires QoS includes certain types of traffic such as Voice, Video and
QoS is defined by:
•Classification — Specifies which packet fields are matched to specific values. All packets matching the
•Action — Defines traffic management where packets being forwarded are based on packet information, and packet field values such as VLAN priority tag (VPT) and DSCP (DiffServ Code Point).
VPT Classification Information
VLAN Priority Tags are used to classify the packets by mapping packets to one of the egress queues. VLAN Priority Tag to queue assignments are
Table
CoS Value | Forwarding Queue Values |
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0 | q2 |
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1 | q1 (Lowest Priority) |
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2 | q1 (Lowest Priority) |
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3 | q2 |
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4 | q3 |
Configuring Quality of Service
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