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Insight Managed 8-Port Gigabit (Hi-Power) PoE+ Smart Cloud Switch with NETGEAR FlexPoE Power
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Only classes of the same type can be nested; class nesting does not allow for the negation
(exclude option) of the referenced class.
To configure DiffServ, you must define service levels, namely the forwarding classes/PHBs
identified by a given DSCP value, on the egress interface. You define these service levels by
configuring BA classes for each.
Create policies
Use DiffServ policies to associate a collection of classes that you configure with one or more
QoS policy statements. The result of this association is referred to as a policy.
From a DiffServ perspective, two types of policies exist:
• Traffic Conditioning Policy. A policy that is applied to a DiffServ traffic class.
• Service Provisioning Policy. A policy that is applied to a DiffServ service level.
You must manually configure the various statements and rules used in the traffic conditioning
and service provisioning policies to achieve the desired Traffic Conditioning Specification
(TCS) and the Service Level Specification (SLS) operation, respectively.
Traffic conditioning policy
Traffic conditioning pertains to actions performed on incoming traffic. Several distinct QoS
actions are associated with traffic conditioning:
• Dropping. Drop a packet upon arrival. This is useful for emulating access control list
operation using DiffServ, especially when DiffServ and ACL cannot coexist on the same
interface.
• Marking IP DSCP or IP Precedence. Marking/re-marking the DiffServ code point in a
packet with the DSCP value representing the service level associated with a particular
DiffServ traffic class. Alternatively, the IP precedence value of the packet can be
marked/re-marked.
• Marking CoS (802.1p). Sets the 3-bit priority field in the first/only 802.1p header to a
specified value when packets are transmitted for the traffic class. An 802.1p header is
inserted if it does not already exist. This is useful for assigning a Layer 2 priority level
based on a DiffServ forwarding class (such as the DSCP or IP precedence value)
definition to convey some QoS characteristics to downstream switches that do not
routinely look at the DSCP value in the IP header.
• Policing. A method of constraining incoming traffic associated with a particular class so
that it conforms to the terms of the TCS. Packets that are out-of-profile, either in excess of
the conformance specification or nonconformant, are dropped.
• Counting. Updating octet and packet statistics to keep track of data handling along traffic
paths within DiffServ. In this DiffServ feature, counters are not explicitly configured by the
user, but are designed into the system based on the DiffServ policy being created. For
more information, see
View DiffServ service statistics on page 261.
• Assigning QoS queue. Directs a traffic stream to the specified QoS queue. This allows a
traffic classifier to specify which one of the supported hardware queues are used for
handling packets belonging to the class.