
Configuring Traffic Filters and Protocol Prioritization
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To complete the procedures in this chapter, you must be familiar with outbound
traffic filter criteria and actions. See Chapter 4 for this information.
Interoperability of ATM Protocol Prioritization
Protocol prioritization (priority queuing) implemented for ATM services at the
driver/interface level enables you to prioritize traffic going out of an ATM
interface. Protocol prioritization implemented at the service record level enables
you to prioritize traffic going out of individual VCs. This section describes the
interoperability of ATM protocol prioritization at the interface and service levels.
Service record filters and prioritization are applied before interface filters and
prioritization. Service record filters and prioritization also are applied
independently of interface filters and prioritization. Be careful when applying
traffic filters at both the service record level and the interface level because a
packet that is prioritized as high at the service level, may be prioritized as low at
the interface level. In most cases, applying filters at either the interface or service
level provides adequate traffic management.
If you need to apply traffic filters only at the service record level, we recommend
that you also enable priority queuing at the interface level without applying filters,
so as to provide adequate buffers. If you do this, all data flows to the normal
priority queue and is de-queued from there and the buffer limit of the normal
priority queue eases the flow of data to the ATM driver.
When you enable priority queuing at both levels, you can override the interface
filters so that only the service record filters are applied. This feature is useful
when certain filter definitions satisfy the requirements of all except a few ATM
services. In these cases, you can define generic filters at the interface level, define
specific filters at the service record level for those few ATM services, and enable
the service record filter override. Thereafter, if a service record filter indicates that
a packet has high priority and priority queuing is enabled at both the service
record and interface levels, the interface filters are ignored and the service record
filters are applied at both levels.
Note:
For the Passport 5430, you can implement protocol prioritization at the
service record level only.
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