HP Network Direr Software Products manual Configuration Type Step

632CHAPTER 15: PRIORITIZING NETWORK TRAFFIC

The wizard determines which of the devices it configures are capable of the required classification and handles these devices as boundary nodes. These devices are configured by the wizard to classify the traffic and to apply appropriate DiffServ codepoint markings. Devices not capable of the required classification are configured by the wizard to classify traffic based upon the DiffServ codepoint values that the boundary nodes mark the traffic with. This ensures that all configured devices are able to participate in the prioritization of network traffic.

Whilst the Prioritize Network Traffic Wizard configures devices to mark the user priority field as well as the DiffServ codepoint, it does not configure devices to use the tagged MAC headers. However, if VLANs have been configured on some or all of the ports on the configured devices then the appropriate user priority data will be added to the packets that are transmitted out of these ports. See “Vlan Management” on page 499 for more information on configuring VLANs using 3Com Network Director.

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You can select which of the supported 3Com devices in your network you wish to configure as follows (See Figure 345):

Figure 345 Prioritize Network Traffic Wizard - Configuration Type