4 802.1p – PLANET WGSW-5242 User Manual

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IP Precedence mode configuration

Figure 4-8-5

IP Precedence mode configuration page screenshot

4.8.4 802.1P

QoS settings allow customization of packet priority in order to facilitate delivery of data traffic that might be affected by latency

problems. When CoS / 802.1p Tag Priority is applied, the Managed Switch recognizes 802.1Q VLAN tag packets and extracts

the VLAN tagged packets with User Priority value.

802.1Q Tag and 802.1p priority

User Priority

CFI

VLAN ID (VID)

3 bits

1 bits

12 bits

TPID (Tag Protocol

Identifier)

TCI (Tag Control

Information)

2 bytes

2 bytes

Preamble

Destination

Address

Source

Address

VLAN TAG

Ethernet

Type

Data

FCS

6 bytes

6 bytes

4 bytes

2 bytes

46-1517 bytes

4 bytes

Figure 4-8-6:

802.1p Tag Priority

Set up the COS priority level. With the drop-down selection item of Priority Type above being selected as COS only/COS first,

this control item will then be available to set the queuing policy for each port.

QoS settings allow customization of packet priority in order to facilitate delivery of data traffic that might be affected by latency

problems. The IEEE 802.1p Priority specification uses 8 priority levels to classify data packets. In 802.1p compliant devices, a

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