
284 Chapter4 Policy-enabled networks
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If a packet is received from a trusted port and either it does not match any of the
filters installed by the user on this port or it does match a filt er but is not dropped,
the BPS 2000 uses a default layer 2 filter to change the packet IEEE 802.1p and
drop precedence based on the DSCP of the packet.
Filters that you install on untrusted ports must specify an action to change the
DSCP, IEEE 802.1p priority, a nd drop precedence of IP traf fic received from these
ports. For non-IP traffic, the filters must specify an action to update the IEEE
802.1p priority and drop precedence, but not update the DSCP.
If a packet is received from an untrusted port and it does not match any one of the
filters installed by the user on the port, the BPS 2000 uses default layer 2 filters to
change the packet DSCP, IEEE 802.1p priority, and drop precedence as follows:
•If the packet is tagged, the BPS 2000 uses a layer 2 filter to change the DSCP ,
IEEE 802.1p to 0, and drop precedence to 1 so that the packet can get best
effort treatment.
•If an IP packet is untagged, the BPS 2000 uses 8 default layer 2 filters to
change the DSCP based on the default IEEE 802.1p priority of the ingress
untrusted port. The BPS 2000 changes the packet DSCP using the 802.1p
priority mapping table that matches each one of the eight IEEE 802.1p
priorities to the corresponding DSCP. The value s ca n be modi fi ed by a policy
server or by the user.
The unrestricted ports, or the unrestricted class of interface groups, have no
restrictions. That is, you can re-mark the DSCP or not, depending on your
configuration. Using unrestricted ports allows you to manipulate the DSCP value
based on the filter criteria.
Table 5 8 describes the default DSCP, QoS class, IEEE 802.1p, and egress queue
assignment for packets in each traffic class.
Tabl e 58 Default mapping of DSCP to QoS class and IEEE 802.1p
Incoming or re-marked DSCP
(hex values) QoS class Number of queues
2 4
Outgoing IEEE
802.1p user
priority
CS7 (38) Critical 1 1 7
CS6 (30) Network
EF(2E), CS5(28) Premium 6