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:

• Ferguson, Paul and Geoff Huston. Quality of Service. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.

• Kilkki, Kalevi. Differentiated Services for the Internet. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.

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:

• RFC 2474, Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers – Describes an enhancement to the type of service (ToS) field or DS fields of the IPv4 and IPv6 packet headers to support differentiated services

• RFC 2475, An Architecture for Differentiated Services – Provides a detailed description of the organization and modules of the Diffserv architecture

• RFC 2597, Assured Forwarding PHB Group – Describes how the assured forwarding (AF) per-hop behavior works.

• RFC 2598, An Expedited Forwarding PHB – Describes how the expedited forwarding (EF) per-hop behavior works

• Internet-Draft, An Informal Management Model for Diffserv Routers – Presents a model for implementing the Diffserv architecture on routers.

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:

• ipqosconf(1M) - Describes the command for setting up the IPQoS configuration file

• ipqos(7ipp) – Describes the IPQoS implementation of the Diffserv architectural model

• ipgpc(7ipp) – Describes the IPQoS implementation of a Diffserv classifier

• tokenmt(7ipp) – Describes the IPQoS tokenmt meter

• tswtclmt(7ipp) – Describes the IPQoS tswtclmt meter

• dscpmk(7ipp) – Describes the DSCP marker module

• dlcosmk(7ipp) – Describes the IPQoS 802.1D user-priority marker module

• flowacct(7ipp)– Describes the IPQoS flow-accounting module

• acctadm(1M) – Describes the command that configures the Solaris extended accounting facilities. The acctadm command includes IPQoS extensions.