Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Using Custom Queuing

Problem

You want to configure Custom Queuing on an interface to give different traffic streams a share of the bandwidth according to their IP Precedence levels.

Solution

Implementing Custom Queuing on a router is a two-step procedure. First, you must define the traffic types that will populate your queues. And then you apply the queuing method to an interface:

Router#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#access-list 103 permit ip any any precedence 5
Router(config)#access-list 104 permit ip any any precedence 4
Router(config)#access-list 105 permit ip any any precedence 3
Router(config)#access-list 106 permit ip any any precedence 2
Router(config)#access-list 107 permit ip any any precedence 1
Router(config)#queue-list 1 protocol ip 3 list 103
Router(config)#queue-list 1 protocol ip 4 list 104
Router(config)#queue-list 1 protocol ip 5 list 105
Router(config)#queue-list 1 queue 5 byte-count 3000 limit 55
Router(config)#queue-list 1 protocol ip 6 list 106
Router(config)#queue-list 1 protocol ip 7 list 107
Router(config)#queue-list 1 default 8
Router(config)#interface HSSI0/0
Router(config-if)#custom-queue-list 1
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#end
Router#

Discussion

When you enable Custom Queuing, the router automatically creates 16 queues for application traffic plus one more for system requirements. You can look at the queues with a normal show interface command:

Router#show interface Ethernet0 Ethernet0 ...