STOP!
Do not change any Quality of Service settings unless instructed to do so
by the ISP.
A.1 Traffic Priority
Traffic Priority manages and avoids traffic congestion by defining inbound
and outbound priority rules for each device on the FiOS Router. These rules
determine the priority that packets, traveling through the device, will receive.
QoS parameters (DSCP marking and packet priority) are set per packet, on an
application basis.
QoS can be configured using flexible rules, according to the following parameters:
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Source/destination IP address, MAC address, or host name
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Device
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Source/destination ports
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Limit the rule for specific days and hours
The FiOS Router supports two priority marking methods for packet prioritization:
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DSCP
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802.1p Priority
The matching of packets by rules is connection-based, known as Stateful
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