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Managing IP Quality of Service in Oracle Solaris 11.1     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Introducing IPQoS (Overview)

IPQoS Basics

What Are Differentiated Services?

IPQoS Features

Where to Get More Information About Quality-of-Service Theory and Practice

Books About Quality of Service

Requests for Comments (RFCs) About Quality of Service

Web Sites With Quality-of-Service Information

IPQoS Man Pages

Providing Quality of Service With IPQoS

Implementing Service-Level Agreements

Assuring Quality of Service for an Individual Organization

Introducing the Quality-of-Service Policy

Improving Network Efficiency With IPQoS

How Bandwidth Affects Network Traffic

Using Classes of Service to Prioritize Traffic

Differentiated Services Model

Classifier (ipgpc) Overview

IPQoS Classes

IPQoS Filters

Meter (tokenmt and tswtclmt) Overview

Marker (dscpmk and dlcosmk) Overview

Flow Accounting (flowacct) Overview

How Traffic Flows Through the IPQoS Modules

Traffic Forwarding on an IPQoS-Enabled Network

DS Codepoint

Per-Hop Behaviors

Expedited Forwarding

Assured Forwarding

Packet Forwarding in a Diffserv Environment

2.  Planning for an IPQoS-Enabled Network (Tasks)

3.  Creating the IPQoS Configuration File (Tasks)

4.  Starting and Maintaining IPQoS (Tasks)

5.  Using Flow Accounting and Statistics Gathering (Tasks)

6.  IPQoS in Detail (Reference)

Index

IPQoS Basics

IPQoS enables the Differentiated Services (Diffserv) architecture that is defined by the Differentiated Services Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In Oracle Solaris, IPQoS is implemented at the IP level of the TCP/IP protocol stack.

What Are Differentiated Services?

By enabling IPQoS, you can provide different levels of network service for selected customers and selected applications. The different levels of service are collectively referred to as differentiated services. The differentiated services that you provide to customers can be based on a structure of service levels that your company offers to its customers. You can also provide differentiated services based on the priorities that are set for applications or users on your network.

Providing quality of service involves the following activities:

IPQoS Features

IPQoS has the following features:

Where to Get More Information About Quality-of-Service Theory and Practice

You can find information on differentiated services and quality of service from print and online sources.

Books About Quality of Service

For more information on quality-of-service theory and practice, refer to the following books:

Requests for Comments (RFCs) About Quality of Service

IPQoS conforms to the specifications that are described in the following RFCs and the following Internet drafts:

Web Sites With Quality-of-Service Information

The Differentiated Services Working Group of the IETF maintains a web site with links to Diffserv Internet drafts at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/diffserv-charter.html.

Router manufacturers such as Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks provide information on their corporate web sites that describes how Differentiated Services are implemented in their products.

IPQoS Man Pages

IPQoS documentation includes the following man pages: