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Overview, DSCP Policy

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Quality of Service (QoS): Managing Bandwidth More Effectively Introduction Term Use in This Document re-marking (DSCP remarking) Assigns a new QoS policy to an outbound packet by changing the DSCP bit settings in the ToS byte. tagged port membership Identifies a port as belonging to a specific VLAN and enables VLAN-tagged packets belonging to that VLAN to carry an 802.1p priority setting when outbound from that port. Where a port is an untagged member of a VLAN, outbound packets belonging to that VLAN do not carry an 802.1p priority setting. Type-of-Service Comprised of a three-bit (high-order) precedence field and a five-bit (low-order) Type-of-Service field. (ToS) byte Later implementations may use this byte as a six-bit (high-order) Differentiated Services field and a two-bit (low-order) reserved field. See also "IP-precedence bits" and DSCP elsewhere in this table. upstream device A device linked directly or indirectly to an inbound switch port. That is, the switch receives traffic from upstream devices. Overview QoS settings operate on two levels: ■ Controlling the priority of outbound packets moving through the switch: Configuring a new 802.1p priority value allows you to set the outbound priority queue to which a packet is sent. For example, you can configure an 802.1p priority of 0 through 7 for an outbound packet. When the packet is sent to a port, the QoS priority determines the outbound queue to which the packet is assigned as shown in table 5-1. Table 5-1. 802.1p Priority Settings and Outbound Queue Assignment 802.1p Priority Setting Outbound Port Queue 1 and 2 Low priority (1, 2) 0 or 3 Normal priority (3, 4) 4 and 5 Medium priority (5, 6) 6 and 7 High priority (7, 8) (In an 802.1Q VLAN environment with VLAN-tagged ports, if QoS is not configured on the switch, but is configured on an upstream device, the priorities carried in the packets determine the forwarding queues in the switch.) ■ Configuring a priority for outbound packets and a service (priority) policy for use by downstream devices: • DSCP Policy: This feature enables you to set a priority policy in outbound IP packets. (You can configure downstream devices to read and use this policy.) This method is not dependent on VLAN-tagged ports to carry priority policy to downstream devices, and can: 5-7

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5-7
Quality of Service (QoS): Managing Bandwidth More Effectively
Introduction
Overview
QoS settings operate on two levels:
Controlling the priority of outbound packets moving through the
switch:
Configuring a new 802.1p priority value allows you to set the
outbound priority queue to which a packet is sent. For example, you can
configure an 802.1p priority of 0 through 7 for an outbound packet. When
the packet is sent to a port, the QoS priority determines the outbound
queue to which the packet is assigned as shown in table 5-1.
Table 5-1.
802.1p Priority Settings and Outbound Queue Assignment
(In an 802.1Q VLAN environment with VLAN-tagged ports, if QoS is
not
configured on the switch, but
is
configured on an upstream device, the
priorities carried in the packets determine the forwarding queues in the
switch.)
Configuring a priority for outbound packets and a service (prior-
ity) policy for use by downstream devices:
DSCP Policy:
This feature enables you to set a priority policy in
outbound IP packets. (You can configure downstream devices to read
and use this policy.) This method is not dependent on VLAN-tagged
ports to carry priority policy to downstream devices, and can:
re-marking
(DSCP re-
marking)
Assigns a new QoS policy to an outbound packet by changing the DSCP bit settings in the ToS byte.
tagged port
membership
Identifies a port as belonging to a specific VLAN and enables VLAN-tagged packets belonging to that
VLAN to carry an 802.1p priority setting when outbound from that port. Where a port is an untagged
member of a VLAN, outbound packets belonging to that VLAN do not carry an 802.1p priority setting.
Type-of-Service
(ToS) byte
Comprised of a three-bit (high-order) precedence field and a five-bit (low-order) Type-of-Service field.
Later implementations may use this byte as a six-bit (high-order) Differentiated Services field and a
two-bit (low-order) reserved field. See also “IP-precedence bits” and DSCP elsewhere in this table.
upstream
device
A device linked directly or indirectly to an inbound switch port. That is, the switch receives traffic from
upstream devices.
Term
Use in This Document
802.1p Priority Setting
Outbound Port Queue
1 and 2
Low priority (1, 2)
0 or 3
Normal priority (3, 4)
4 and 5
Medium priority (5, 6)
6 and 7
High priority (7, 8)