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Insight Managed 8-Port Gigabit (Hi-Power) PoE+ Smart Cloud Switch with NETGEAR FlexPoE Power
Configure Quality of Service User Manual230
Quality of Service concepts
In a switch, each physical port consists of one or more queues for transmitting packets on the
attached network. Multiple queues per port are often provided to give preference to certain
packets over others based on user-defined criteria. When a packet is queued for transmission in
a port, the rate at which it is serviced depends on how the queue is configured and possibly the
amount of traffic present in the other queues of the port. If a delay is necessary, packets get held
in the queue until the scheduler authorizes the queue for transmission. As queues become full,
packets can no longer be held for transmission and are dropped by the switch.
Quality of Service (QoS) is a means of providing consistent, predictable data delivery by
distinguishing packets with strict timing requirements from those that are more tolerant of delay.
Packets with strict timing requirements are given special treatment in a QoS-capable network.
With this in mind, all elements of the network must be QoS capable. The presence of at least one
node that is not QoS capable creates a deficiency in the network path, and the performance of
the entire packet flow is compromised.
Manage Class of Service
The Class of Service (CoS) queueing feature lets you directly configure certain aspects of
switch queueing. This provides the desired QoS behavior for different types of network traffic
when the complexities of DiffServ are not required. The priority of a packet arriving at an
interface can be used to steer the packet to the appropriate outbound CoS queue through a
mapping table. CoS queue characteristics that affect queue mapping, such as minimum
guaranteed bandwidth or transmission rate shaping, are user configurable at the queue (or
port) level.
Eight queues per port are supported.
CoS configuration concepts
You can set the Class of Service trust mode for an interface. Each port in the switch can be
configured to trust one of the packet fields (802.1p or IP DSCP), or to not trust any packet’s
priority designation (untrusted mode). If the port is set to a trusted mode, it uses a mapping
table appropriate for the trusted field being used. This mapping table indicates the CoS
queue to which the packet must be forwarded on the appropriate egress port. Of course, the
trusted field must exist in the packet for the mapping table to be of any use. If this is not the
case, default actions are performed. These actions involve directing the packet to a specific
CoS level configured for the ingress port as a whole, based on the existing port default
priority as mapped to a traffic class by the current 802.1p mapping table.
Alternatively, when a port is configured as untrusted, it does not trust any incoming packet
priority designation and uses the port default priority value instead. All packets arriving at the
ingress of an untrusted port are directed to a specific CoS queue on the appropriate egress