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Appendix A Quality of Service
Policy The class policy determines the policy of routing packets inside the class.
Select one of four options:
• Priority - Priority queuing utilizes multiple queues, so that traffic is distrib-
uted among queues based on priority. This priority is defined according to
packet’s priority, which can be defined explicitly, by a DSCP value, or by an
802.1p value.
• FIFO - The “First In, First Out” priority queue. This queue ignores any pre-
viously-marked priority the packets may have.
• Fairness - The fairness algorithm ensures no starvation by granting all pack-
ets a certain level of priority.
• RED - The RED (Random Early Detection) algorithm utilizes statistical
methods to drop packets in a “probabilistic” way before queues overflow.
Dropping packets in this way slows a source down enough to keep the queue
steady and reduces the number of packets lost when a queue overflows and a
host is transmitting at a high rate.
Schedule By default, the class will always be active. However, scheduler rules can
be configured to define time segments during which the class may be active.
Class Rules Class rules define which packets belong to the class. They must be
defined in order to associate packets that meet them with the shaping class.
Without class rules, the shaping class will have no effect. Each class can have out-
bound and/or inbound rules for outgoing and incoming traffic, respectively. For
example, all outgoing packets from computer A in the network can be defined
as belonging to the VoIP class. These packets will be limited to the class settings
(bandwidth, schedule, etc.). In addition, the traffic protocol and priority for each
rule can be defined (this is not mandatory as it is with Traffic Priority rules).