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SmartWare Software Configuration Guide 13 • Link scheduler configuration
Figure 30. Service-Policy Profile devoted to an Interface
The link arbiter controls outbound network traffic according to a service-policy profile devoted to a certain
interface, as shown in figure 30. Take into account, that such an interface normally represents the very bottle-
neck in the data transmission chain.
In a first an access control list is used to assign a predefined or user-defined class to any data packet and thus
classifies every data packet. Please note that predefined classes, e.g. local-voice, local-default and default, accrue
from the SmartNode itself and therefore do not need any packet classification. Next the link arbiter handles
each class corresponding to a user-defined service-policy profile.
Therefore QoS features in SmartWare are a combination of an access control list, used for packet classification,
and a service-policy profile, used by the link arbiter to define the arbitration mode and the order in which
packets of different classes are served.
The following sections describe methods to assign and share bandwidth on an interface in more details.

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The following sections are useful for administrators familiar with Cisco's IOS QoS features and having to
become acquainted with SmartWare QoS configuration will find a helpful command cross reference.

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