Automatic Priority Queue Assignment - ZyXEL Communications P-870HN-5xb User Manual

Chapter 16 Quality of Service (QoS)
different kinds of traffic can be marked for different kinds of forwarding. Resources
can then be allocated according to the DSCP values and the configured policies.
IP Precedence
Similar to IEEE 802.1p prioritization at layer-2, you can use IP precedence to
prioritize packets in a layer-3 network. IP precedence uses three bits of the eight-
bit ToS (Type of Service) field in the IP header. There are eight classes of services
(ranging from zero to seven) in IP precedence. Zero is the lowest priority level and
seven is the highest.

Automatic Priority Queue Assignment

If you enable QoS on the Device, the Device can automatically base on the IEEE
802.1p priority level, IP precedence and/or packet length to assign priority to
traffic which does not match a class.
The following table shows you the internal layer-2 and layer-3 QoS mapping on
the Device. On the Device, traffic assigned to higher priority queues gets through
faster while traffic in lower index queues is dropped if the network is congested.
Table 76 Internal Layer2 and Layer3 QoS Mapping
PRIORITY
QUEUE
0
1
2
3
4
5
212
LAYER 2 LAYER 3
IEEE 802.1P
USER PRIORITY TOS (IP
(ETHERNET PRECEDENCE)
PRIORITY)
1 0
2
0 0
3 1
4 2
5 3
IP PACKET
DSCP
LENGTH (BYTE)
000000
000000 >1100
001110 250~1100
001100
001010
001000
010110
010100
010010
010000
011110 <250
011100
011010
011000
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