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Chapter 16: Quality of Service
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Section II: Advanced Operations
5 - DSCP value
Specifies a replacement value to write into the DSCP (TOS) field of the 
packets. The range is 0 to 63. 
A new DSCP value can be set at all three levels: flow group, traffic 
class, and policy. A DSCP value specified in a flow group overrides a 
DSCP value specified at the traffic class or policy level. A DSCP value 
specified at the traffic class level is used only if no value has been 
specified at the flow group level. It will override any value set at the 
policy level.
6 - Max Bandwidth
Specifies the maximum bandwidth available to the traffic class. This 
parameter determines the maximum rate at which the ingress port 
accepts data belonging to this traffic class before either dropping or 
remarking occurs, depending on option 3, Exceed Action. If the sum of 
the maximum bandwidth for all traffic classes on a policy exceeds the 
(ingress) bandwidth of the port to which the policy is assigned, the 
bandwidth for the port takes precedence and the port discards packets 
before they can be classified. The range is 0 to 1016 Mbps.
The value for this parameter is rounded up to the nearest Mbps value 
when this traffic class is assigned to a policy on a 10/100 port, and up 
to the nearest 8 Mbps value when assigned to a policy on a gigabit 
port (for example, on a gigabit port, 1 Mbps is rounded to 8 Mbps, and 
9 is rounded to 16). 
Note
If this option is set to 0 (zero), all traffic that matches that traffic class 
is dropped. However, a access control list can be created to match 
the traffic that is marked for dropping, or a subset of it, and given an 
action of permit, to override this. This functionality can be used to 
discard all but a certain type of traffic. For more information about 
configuring access control lists, see Chapter 14, “Access Control 
Lists” on page 269.
7 - Burst Size
Specifies the size of a token bucket for the traffic class. The token 
bucket is used in situations where you have set a maximum bandwidth 
for a class, but where traffic activity may periodically exceed the 
maximum. A token bucket can provide a buffer for those periods where 
the maximum bandwidth is exceeded.
Tokens are added to the bucket at the same rate as the traffic class’ 
maximum bandwidth, set with option 6, Max Bandwidth. For example, 
a maximum bandwidth of 50 Mbps adds tokens to the bucket at that 
rate.
If the amount of traffic flow matches the maximum bandwidth, no traffic 
is dropped because the number of tokens added to the bucket 
