Class, Diffserv traffic classes, Class diffserv traffic classes – NETGEAR MS510TXPP 8 Port Gigabit PoE Managed Switch User Manual

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Two basic types of QoS are supported:

Integrated Services

. Network resources are apportioned based on request and are

reserved (resource reservation) according to network management policy (RSVP, for
example).

Differentiated Services

. Network resources are apportioned based on traffic

classification and priority, giving preferential treatment to data with strict timing
requirements.

The switch supports DiffServ.

The DiffServ feature contains a number of conceptual QoS building blocks that you can use
to construct a differentiated service network. Use these same blocks in different ways to build
other types of QoS architectures.

You must configure three key QoS building blocks for DiffServ:

Class

Policy

Service (the assignment of a policy to a directional interface)

Class

You can classify incoming packets at Layers 2, 3, and 4 by inspecting the following
information for a packet:

Source/destination MAC address

EtherType

Class of Service (802.1p priority) value (first/only VLAN tag)

VLAN ID range (first/only VLAN tag)

IP Service Type octet (also known as ToS bits, Precedence value, DSCP value)

Layer 4 protocol (TCP, UDP and so on)

Layer 4 source/destination ports

Source/destination IP address

From a DiffServ point of view, two types of classes exist:

DiffServ traffic classes

DiffServ service levels/forwarding classes

DiffServ Traffic Classes

With DiffServ, you define which traffic classes to track on an ingress interface. You can define
simple BA classifiers (DSCP) and a wide variety of multifield (MF) classifiers:

Layer 2; Layers 3, 4 (IP only)

Protocol-based

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