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Assigning Forwarding Classes to Output Queues (Required)

You must assign the forwarding classes established by the mf-classifier multifield classifier to output queues. This example assigns output queues as shown in Table 153.

Table 153: Sample Output Queue Assignments for mf-classifier Forwarding Queues

be-class

Best-effort traffic

Queue 0

ef-class

Expedited forwarding traffic

Queue 1

af-class

Assured forwarding traffic

Queue 2

nc-class

Network control traffic

Queue 3

For multifield classifier details, see Configuring and Applying a Firewall Filter for a Multifield Classifier (Required).

To assign forwarding classes to output queues for the Services Router:

  1. Navigate to the top of the configuration hierarchy in either the J-Web or CLI configuration editor.
  2. Perform the configuration tasks described in Table 154.
  3. Go on to Configuring and Applying Rewrite Rules (Required).

Table 154: Assigning Forwarding Classes to Output Queues

Navigate to the Class of service level in the configuration hierarchy.

In the configuration editor hierarchy, select Class of service.

From the top of the configuration hierarchy, enter

edit class-of-service

Assign best-effort traffic to queue 0.
  1. Click Configure next to Forwarding classes.
  2. Click Add new entry next to Queue.
  3. In the Queue num box, type 0.
  4. In the Class name box, type the previously configured name of the best-effort class—be-class.
  5. Click OK.

Enter

set forwarding-classes queue 0 be-class

Assign expedited forwarding traffic to queue 1.
  1. Click Add new entry next to Queue.
  2. In the Queue num box, type 1.
  3. In the Class name box, type the previously configured name of the expedited forwarding class—ef-class.
  4. Click OK.

Enter

set forwarding-classes queue 1 ef-class

Assign assured forwarding traffic to queue 2.
  1. Click Add new entry next to Queue.
  2. In the Queue num box, type 2.
  3. In the Class name box, type the previously configured name of the assured forwarding class—af-class.
  4. Click OK.

Enter

set forwarding-classes queue 2 af-class

Assign network control traffic to queue 3.
  1. Click Add new entry next to Queue.
  2. In the Queue num box, type 3.
  3. In the Class name box, type the previously configured name of the expedited forwarding class—nc-class.
  4. Click OK twice.

Enter

set forwarding-classes queue 3 nc-class

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