Quality Of Service, all aspects of providing differential service to packets based on TOS, DSCP, or other information

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Traffic Policing

I know traffic policing isn't something that you normally find in a LAN environment, and I wish I wouldn't be finding it in mine. That being said... I have no choice. The device is a 3750X. The ...
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How does one specify certain IPs or MAC addresses for NBAR policy enforcement?

In an office environment, if I wanted to block youtube using a Cisco ISR router, I would set up the following with NBAR: class-map match-all YOUTUBE match protocol http host "*youtube.com*" ! ...
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Accurate approch for LAN Speed Test [closed]

Respected one, Please guide me what would be the best approach to check the Network Speed(Uploading & Downloading Speed) within a LAN network (Which also have connectivity to Internet).
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How to throttle speed for a particular computer with high activity?

We're in an office environment of about 50 people. A few departments send emails with large attachments extensively and doing so clogs up the WAN connection (10Mbps). I'm upgrading the networking ...
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DSCP trust boundary

I have performed some analysis and noticed that traffic coming in from the Internet contains a myriad of DSCP values. This traffic competes for voice and video resources on the internal network. How ...
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How to generate traffic for lab scenarios

I'd like to start exploring QoS, and lower level optimizations for things like broadcasts/multicasts within my home lab. I've looked around for ways to generate traffic to and from a box, but haven't ...
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Book to study Intserv and Diffserv: what do you recommend? [closed]

I know these subjects aren't exactly the "state of art" in QoS, but I need to study them because of some homeworks at University. As I'm a programmer, it's hard to me to pick a good book. Also, most ...
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QoS at the edge of branch

I have a question about QoS design in branch. The main place to deploy qos in branch - edge between edge router and ISP. At this edge we have voice traffic to SIP provider, copr. external email and ...
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Enabling MLS QoS on a production 7600

I am looking at a 7609-S with a RSP720-3CXL running 12.2(33)SRE3. I have been asked to help with rate limiting some servers attached to a couple of ports running as L2 ports (switchport mode access), ...
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Can QoS settings interfere with wireless printing?

This may seem like a rudimentary question, but I wasn't sure where else to ask it. I've set up some QoS rules on my router that give the highest priority to all traffic incoming and outgoing to my ...
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What is the 5 level QoS model (through config example)?

I have heard people stating that their network "operates a 5 level (or layer) QoS model" Sometimes they also mention a 7 level QoS model. Can anyone provide me with a Cisco IOS config example ...
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TDMoE and QoS considerations

As mentioned in the previous question I am looking at sending voice communications over a Metro Ethernet connection shared also by data connections. In addition to the previous question I have this ...
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QoS on HP Procurve 2520 and 3800 switches

Do Procurve switches remark cos/dscp values between switches (trust boundaries) as Cisco switches do? I'm wondering if there is an equivalent to "mls qos trust (cos/dscp)" in the HP realm.
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How can I verify QoS DSCP marking on a Cisco Catalyst 4500E?

Good afternoon, I've got a shiny new 4500E running 15.0(1r)SG7 that is set to replace an ailing 3750E. It is running ipbase for now. On the 3750 I was able to check out the incoming DSCP/CoS values ...
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Are CoS and QoS ever interchangeable?

The terms CoS & QoS are often used interchangably, particularly in the SP space when providing "Class of Service profiles" etc as part of Product sets. I'm looking to re-affirm my understanding ...
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Weather map and monitoring for network usage

What tools are able to provide an almost real time weather map of usage and average traffic per timeframe going over the different links? What are some ways or solutions to actively monitor my ...
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Quality of Service based on Layer 7 traffic

How can one perform quality of service based on layer 7 traffic? How would you classify the traffic and actively monitor and respond (dynamically prioritizing traffic)? Are there any solutions which ...