Class of service, Layer 2 queue settings, Setting the default priority for interfaces – LevelOne GTL-2691 User Manual

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Class of Service (CoS) allows you to specify which data packets have

greater precedence when traffic is buffered in the switch due to congestion.

This switch supports CoS with eight priority queues for each port. Data

packets in a port’s high-priority queue will be transmitted before those in

the lower-priority queues. You can set the default priority for each
interface, and configure the mapping of frame priority tags to the switch’s

priority queues.

This chapter describes the following basic topics:

Layer 2 Queue Settings

– Configures each queue, including the default

priority, queue mode, and queue weight, and mapping of packets to

queues based on CoS tags.

Layer 3/4 Priority Settings

– Maps TCP ports, IP precedence tags, or IP

DSCP tags to class of service values.

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This section describes how to configure the default priority for untagged

frames, set the queue mode, set the weights assigned to each queue, and

map class of service tags to queues.

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Use the Traffic > Priority > Default Priority page to specify the default port

priority for each interface on the switch. All untagged packets entering the

switch are tagged with the specified default port priority, and then sorted

into the appropriate priority queue at the output port.

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This switch provides eight priority queues for each port. It uses

Weighted Round Robin to prevent head-of-queue blockage, but can be

configured to process each queue in strict order, or use a combination

of strict and weighted queueing.

The default priority applies for an untagged frame received on a port

set to accept all frame types (i.e, receives both untagged and tagged

frames). This priority does not apply to IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagged

frames. If the incoming frame is an IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagged frame,

the IEEE 802.1p User Priority bits will be used.

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