Chapter 5
Packet Classification and Labelling
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5.2 Labels
Introduction This section will explain in detail how to configure labels through the CLI.
As mentioned before labels are used to assign a user friendly name to a packet for
internal usage.
CLI Command groups The label command group is build up out of one main group called label and two sub-
groups called chain and rule. The sub-group rule has one more sub-group called
debug.
The command group and sub-groups in detail.
!The same label can be used in both Routing label rules and QoS label rules.
Its name/ID will be used for forwarding, its parameters will be used for QoS
related queuing, rate-limiting or marking.

Label command group

label add
modify
delete
list
flush
chain
rule

Chain command group

chain add
delete
list
flush

Rule command group

rule add
delete
modify
list
flush
debug