Table Of Contents - Allied Telesis AlliedWare Plus Overview

Each of these features is discussed in much more detail later on in this document.
Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 1
Which products and software version does this Note apply to? ................................................. 3
The process flow and methodology of the QoS system ................................................................ 3
Outline of the QoS processing flow ................................................................................................... 5
Details of the component processes, and how to configure them ............................................ 10
Egress bandwidth limiting .................................................................................................................... 29
Policing Examples ................................................................................................................................... 30
Fabric QoS .............................................................................................................................................. 38
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Ability to see the current state of egress queues
There are commands that enable you to see statistics relating to every egress queue on
every port.
Packet markers ................................................................................................................................. 4
Initial mapping to an egress queue, based on 802.1p value .................................................... 5
Classification ...................................................................................................................................... 6
Premarking ......................................................................................................................................... 6
Policing ................................................................................................................................................ 7
Limiting or remarking (dropping non-conformant packets) ................................................... 7
Queue shaping .................................................................................................................................. 8
Scheduling .......................................................................................................................................... 9
QoS elements: policy maps, class maps, policers, matches .................................................. 10
Diagram of the overall QoS process flow ................................................................................ 11
Enabling QoS globally .................................................................................................................... 12
Initial mapping to queue based on tag ....................................................................................... 12
Classification .................................................................................................................................... 13
Premarking ....................................................................................................................................... 13
Policing .............................................................................................................................................. 16
Remarking ........................................................................................................................................ 22
Queue shaping-queue sets, RED, and tail-drop .................................................................... 23
Scheduling ........................................................................................................................................ 27
1: Policing separate traffic types on separate ports ............................................................... 30
2: Policing one traffic type on combined ports ....................................................................... 32
3: Policing one traffic type on separate ports, and another traffic type on the same
ports combined ....................................................................................................................... 33
4: Policing combined traffic types on separate ports ............................................................. 35
5: Policing combined traffic types on combined ports .......................................................... 37
Mapping the queues in the switching instances to queues in the fabric ............................ 39
Scheduling the queues within the fabric ................................................................................... 40