November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 58m
English
As discussed in Chapter 3, link-layer IEEE 802.1p/Q VLAN tagging includes a 3-bit field for specifying traffic prioritization levels. The 3-bit field allows for 8 levels of prioritization (0 to 7), with 7 representing the highest priority. Not all IP router or Gigabit Ethernet switch products support all 8 levels of priority, but most will provide at least 4 assignable levels.
Class-of-service prioritization is fulfilled through buffer queues. With no class-of-service designations, packets would be forwarded on a first-in/first-out basis through one buffer. Prioritization requires creation of multiple buffer queues so that traffic can be sorted by priority tag. As shown in Figure 11-1, the queues themselves ...
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