07-02-2007 12:58 AM - edited 03-05-2019 05:04 PM
Hi all, with COS, does this actually provide you with a mechanism to prioritize the traffic as it stands for class of service, not quiality of service, and this all happens at layer 2 ?
07-04-2007 04:22 AM
CoS is three bits, 1 or 0. It does not do anything. It's just there. DSCP and IPP does not do anything either. It's a MARK.
You have to configure a device to say prioritize packets that have CoS 010 over packets that have CoS 000.
07-04-2007 04:31 AM
Imagine 20 people standing in a line.
Classification:
You see that some people wear blue sweaters, and some white.
Marking:
You take a red brush, and stroke white sweaters with red color, and take a black brush, and stroke blue sweaters with black color.
Congestion management:
For every person that has red strokes on them, you allow two other people through that have black strokes on them
Congestion avoidance:
If there are more than 5 people with red strokes on them, kill one person
Policing:
If more that 6 people with black strokes try to enter at once, kill other people
Shaping:
If more that 6 people with black strokes try to enter at once, make other people wait until all people pass
Fragmenting:
If a person with red stroke weight more than 400 pounds, cut them in half
Interleaving:
If you want people with black strokes that weight 100 pounds to pass ahead of people with red strokes that weight 400 pounds, but it takes too long for large person to get through, you cut the large person in half, let one half pass, than let person with black stroke pass, than let the other half of a person with a red stroke pass, and connect two parts of that person into one again.
CoS is marking, but that's it.
For QoS to function, all other mechanisms have to be set up.
07-10-2007 02:30 PM
can you tell me the difference between
classification and marking ? im a little confused ?
07-07-2010 07:56 AM
I always look at classification as "Identify/matching" something and Marking as "changing" what I identified.
You could match several different markings and change them all to just one marking.
You could identify(classify) AF21, AF20, AFxx and change(mark) them all to be just AF21.
When you make changes you also have the opportunity to control allocated bandwidth for it to.
You will see match, match, match in class-maps and under policies you will see set, set, set for those class map identifications.
07-07-2010 09:11 AM
I think everyone is making this more difficult than it is.
the original question is: does CoS provide you with a mechanism to prioritize the traffic.
Answer: yes it does
Explanation: by default cisco switches remark everything it recieves to CoS 0 (best effort) and then sends it out. When you configure the switches to trust the CoS markings (that has been done before it reaches the switch) and/or remark them to CoS (whatever) you can then enable priority (outbound) queueing aswell as all the extra settings such as bandwidth assigned to each out-going queue etc ... just like QoS and Routed interfaces. I won't go into detail to what type of queueing is allowed as that differs between switches. There's also in-coming priority queues that you can configure ... again read Cisco docs on the particular switches you are using and its capabilities.
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