Linksys SRW208 manual QoS Tab - CoS Settings

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QoS

Network traffic is usually unpredictable, and the only basic assurance that can be offered is best effort traffic delivery. To overcome this challenge, Quality of Service (QoS) is applied throughout the network. This ensures that network traffic is prioritized according to specified criteria, and that specific traffic receives preferential treatment. QoS in the network optimizes network performance and entails two basic facilities:

Classifying incoming traffic into handling classes, based on an attribute, including:

•The ingress interface

•Packet content

•A combination of these attributes

Providing various mechanisms for determining the allocation of network resources to different handling classes, including:

•The assignment of network traffic to a particular hardware queue

•The assignment of internal resources

•Traffic shaping

The terms Class of Service (CoS) and QoS are used in the following context:

CoS provides varying Layer 2 traffic services. CoS refers to classification of traffic to traffic-classes, which are handled as an aggregate whole, with no per-flow settings. CoS is usually related to the 802.1p service that classifies flows according to their Layer 2 priority, as set in the VLAN header.

QoS refers to Layer 2 traffic and above. QoS handles per-flow settings, even within a single traffic class.

QoS Tab - CoS Settings

The CoS Settings screen contains fields for enabling or disabling CoS. In addition, the Trust mode can be selected. The Trust mode relies on predefined fields within the packet to determine the egress queue settings.

The CoS Settings screen has two areas, CoS Settings and CoS to Queue.

Chapter 5: Using the Web-based Utility for Configuration

Figure 5-36: QoS - CoS Settings

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