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ProSafe M5300 Switch

Differentiated Services (DiffServ)

Standard IP-based networks are designed to provide best effort data delivery service. Best

effort service implies that the network deliver the data in a timely fashion, although there is no

guarantee that it will. During times of congestion, packets may be delayed, sent sporadically,

or dropped. For typical Internet applications, such as e-mail and file transfer, a slight

degradation in service is acceptable and in many cases unnoticeable. However, any

degradation of service has undesirable effects on applications with strict timing requirements,

such as voice or multimedia.

Quality of Service (QoS) can provide consistent, predictable data delivery by distinguishing

between packets that have 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. If one node is

unable to meet the necessary timing requirements, this creates a deficiency in the network

path and the performance of the entire packet flow is compromised.

There are two basic types of QoS:

• 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.

managed switch switches support DiffServ.

The DiffServ feature contains a number of conceptual QoS building blocks you can use to

construct a differentiated service network. Use these same blocks in different ways to build

other types of QoS architectures.

There are 3 key QoS building blocks needed to configure DiffServ:

• Class

• Policy

• Service (i.e., 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)

• Secondary 802.1p priority value (second/inner VLAN tag)

• Secondary VLAN ID range (second/inner VLAN tag)

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