ZyXEL Communications VES1724-56 User Manual page 202

Chapter 21 Policy Rule
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 86 Advanced Application > Policy Rule
LABEL
Active
Name
Classifier(s)
Parameters
Set the fields below for this policy. You only have to set the field(s) that is related to the action(s) you
configure in the Action field.
General
VLAN ID
Egress Port
Priority
DSCP
TOS
Metering
Bandwidth
Out-of-
Profile DSCP
Action
Specify the action(s) the Switch takes on the associated classified traffic flow.
Forwarding
Priority
Diffserv
202
DESCRIPTION
Select this option to enable the policy.
Enter a descriptive name for identification purposes.
This field displays the active classifier(s) you configure in the Classifier screen.
Select the classifier(s) to which this policy rule applies. To select more than one classifier,
press [SHIFT] and select the choices at the same time.
Specify a VLAN ID number.
Type the number of an outgoing port.
Specify a priority level.
Specify a DSCP (DiffServ Code Point) number between 0 and 63.
Specify the type of service (TOS) priority level.
You can configure the desired bandwidth available to a traffic flow. Traffic that exceeds the
maximum bandwidth allocated (in cases where the network is congested) is called out-of-
profile traffic.
Specify the bandwidth in kilobit per second (Kbps). Enter a number between 1 and 1000000.
Specify a new DSCP number (between 0 and 63) if you want to replace or remark the DSCP
number for out-of-profile traffic.
Select No change to forward the packets.
Select Discard the packet to drop the packets.
Select Do not drop the matching frame previously marked for dropping to retain the
frames that were marked to be dropped before.
Select No change to keep the priority setting of the frames.
Select Set the packet's 802.1 priority to replace the packet's 802.1 priority field with the
value you set in the Priority field.
Select Send the packet to priority queue to put the packets in the designated queue.
Select Replace the 802.1 priority field with the IP TOS value to replace the packet's
802.1 priority field with the value you set in the TOS field.
Select No change to keep the TOS and/or DSCP fields in the packets.
Select Set the packet's TOS field to set the TOS field with the value you configure in the
TOS field.
Select Replace the IP TOS with the 802.1 priority value to replace the TOS field with
the value you configure in the Priority field.
Select Set the Diffserv Codepoint field in the frame to set the DSCP field with the value
you configure in the DSCP field.
VES1724-56 User's Guide