The last item on our list is the service-policy, this is the part where we apply our policy-map to an interface and specify the direction for the policy.

To help you visualise how the command is used and which direction see the picture below.

QOS

QOS is being applied to traffic coming from inside our network going outbound to the WAN.

Your interface will look something like this.

interface FastEthernet0/0
 description WAN_interface
 bandwidth 20000
 ip address 10.100.100.2 255.255.255.252
 ip nbar protocol-discovery
 service-policy output QOS_Egress

To confirm the QOS is working you would use the command “show policy-map interface fastethernet 0/0” this will give you a whole bunch of information, see below for an example of how this might look.

Service-policy output: QOS_Egress

queue stats for all priority classes:

queue limit 64 packets
(queue depth/total drops/no-buffer drops) 0/0/0
(pkts output/bytes output) 331150787/112001702019

Class-map: voice_traffic (match-all)
266055005 packets, 57655712122 bytes
5 minute offered rate 0 bps, drop rate 0 bps
Match: ip dscp ef (46)
Priority: 7% (1400 kbps), burst bytes 35000, b/w exceed drops: 0
QoS Set
dscp ef
Packets marked 266055059

Class-map: voip_signal (match-any)
78149834 packets, 7487646866 bytes
5 minute offered rate 0 bps, drop rate 0 bps
Match:  dscp cs3 (24) af31 (26)
78149834 packets, 7487646866 bytes
5 minute rate 0 bps
Queueing
queue limit 64 packets
(queue depth/total drops/no-buffer drops) 0/0/0
(pkts output/bytes output) 78149832/7487645664
bandwidth 3% (600 kbps)
QoS Set
dscp af31
Packets marked 78149834

Class-map: class-default (match-any)
9073254895 packets, 3302249852254 bytes
5 minute offered rate 998000 bps, drop rate 0 bps
Match: any
Queueing
queue limit 64 packets
(queue depth/total drops/no-buffer drops) 0/16751970/0
(pkts output/bytes output) 569664615/3424829483864
QoS Set
dscp default
Packets marked 9071570170
shape (average) cir 16000000, bc 160000, be 160000
target shape rate 16000000

As you can see it gives lots of information on how your QOS is performing, the default-class shows some drops that means its had to drop some packets when the link was congested and in fact means your QOS policy is doing its job if the drops were excessive you would increase the values or decrease whichever suits your network.

If you just want to view an indivdual class then you would use the command “show policy-map interface fastethernet 0/0 output class web_traffic” for example.

When using the “service-policy input QOS_Egress” you will receive an error stating that you cannot apply this to the interface, this is becuase CBWFQ is a mechanism for traffic queuing in the outbound direction, never for the inbound direction.

I hope my 3 part blog has gone some way to helping you understand QOS.

RH

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