Managing IP Quality of Service in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

QoS Policy Planning Aids

Gather information for planning the QoS policy in a format that includes the information needed for the IPQoS configuration file. For example, you can use the following template to list the major categories of information to be used in the IPQoS configuration file.

Table 2-1  QoS Planning Template
Class
Priority
Filter
Selector
Rate
Forwarding
Accounting
Class 1
1
Filter 1
Filter 3
Selector 1
Selector 2
Meter rates, depending on meter type
Marker drop precedence
Requires flow-accounting statistics
Class 1
1
Filter 2
Selector 1
Selector 2
N/A
N/A
N/A
Class 2
2
Filter 1
Selector 1
Selector 2
Meter rates, depending on meter type
Marker drop precedence
Requires flow-accounting statistics
Class 2
2
Filter 2
Selector 1
Selector 2
N/A
N/A
N/A

You can divide each major category to further define the QoS policy. Subsequent sections explain how to obtain information for the categories in the template.