Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Implementing Standards-Based Per-Hop Behavior

Problem

You want to configure your router to follow the RFC-defined Per-Hop Behaviors defined for different DSCP values.

Solution

This recipe constructs an approximate implementation of both Expedited Forwarding and Assured Forwarding, while still ensuring that network control packets do not suffer from delays due to application traffic. With the QoS enhancements provided in IOS Version 12.1(5)T and higher, there is a straightforward way to accomplish this using a combination of WRED, CBWFQ, and Low Latency Queuing (LLQ):

Router#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#class-map EF
Router(config-cmap)#description Real-time application traffic
Router(config-cmap)#match ip precedence 5
Router(config-cmap)#exit
Router(config)#class-map AF1x
Router(config-cmap)#description Priority Class 1
Router(config-cmap)#match ip precedence 1
Router(config-cmap)#exit
Router(config)#class-map AF2x
Router(config-cmap)#description Priority Class 2
Router(config-cmap)#match ip precedence 2
Router(config-cmap)#exit
Router(config)#class-map AF3x
Router(config-cmap)#description Priority Class 3
Router(config-cmap)#match ip precedence 3
Router(config-cmap)#exit
Router(config)#class-map AF4x
Router(config-cmap)#description Priority Class 4
Router(config-cmap)#match ip precedence 4
Router(config-cmap)#exit
Router(config)#policy-map cbwfq_pq
Router(config-pmap)#class EF
Router(config-pmap-c)#priority 58 800 Router(config-pmap-c)# ...