Netgear GS728TPP GS728TP/GS728TPP/GS752TP Software Administration Manual - Page 145

GS752TP, GS728TP, and GS728TPP Gigabit Smart Switches Differentiated Services The QoS feature provides Differentiated Services (DiffServ) support that enables traffic to be classified into streams and given certain QoS treatment in accordance with defined per-hop behaviors. For more information, see DiffServ Traffic Classes on page 260. Standard IP-based networks are designed to provide "best effort" data delivery service. Best effort service implies that the network delivers the data in a timely fashion, although there is no guarantee that it will. During times of congestion, packets might be delayed, sent sporadically, or dropped. For typical Internet applications, such as email and file transfer, a slight degradation in service is acceptable and in many cases unnoticeable. Conversely, any degradation of service has undesirable effects on applications with strict timing requirements, such as voice or multimedia. Defining DiffServ To use DiffServ for QoS, you must first define the following categories and their criteria: 1. Class. Create classes and define class criteria. 2. Policy. Create policies, associate classes with policies, and define policy statements. 3. Service. Add a policy to an inbound interface. Packets are classified and processed based on defined criteria. A class defines the classification criteria. A policy's attributes define the processing. Policy attributes might be defined on a per-class instance basis, and it is these attributes that are applied when a match occurs. A policy can contain multiples classes. When the policy is active, the actions taken depend on which class matches the packet. Packet processing begins by checking the class match criteria for a packet. A policy is applied to a packet when a class match within that policy is found. From the DiffServ menu under the QoS tab, you can access the following: • Diffserv Configuration • DSCP Violate Action Mapping • Class Configuration • IPv6 Class Configuration • Policy Configuration • Service Configuration • Service Statistics Diffserv Configuration Use the Diffserv Configuration screen to display DiffServ general status group information, which includes the current administrative mode setting as well as the number of used resources for DiffServ. Configure Quality of Service 145