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Managing IP Quality of Service in Oracle Solaris 11.1
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Managing IP Quality of Service in Oracle Solaris 11.1
October 2012
Describes how to use the IPQOS service to support differentiated services.
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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)
General IPQoS Configuration Planning (Task Map)
Planning the Diffserv Network Topology
Hardware Strategies for the Diffserv Network
IPQoS Network Topologies
IPQoS on Individual Hosts
IPQoS on a Network of Server Farms
IPQoS on a Firewall
Planning the Quality-of-Service Policy
QoS Policy Planning Aids
QoS Policy Planning (Task Map)
How to Prepare a Network for IPQoS
How to Define the Classes for Your QoS Policy
Defining Filters
How to Define Filters in the QoS Policy
How to Plan Flow Control
How to Plan Forwarding Behavior
How to Plan for Flow Accounting
Introducing the IPQoS Configuration Example
IPQoS Topology
3. Creating the IPQoS Configuration File (Tasks)
Defining a QoS Policy in the IPQoS Configuration File (Task Map)
Tools for Creating a QoS Policy
Basic IPQoS Configuration File
Configuring the IPQoS Example Topology
Creating IPQoS Configuration Files for Web Servers
How to Create the IPQoS Configuration File and Define Traffic Classes
How to Define Filters in the IPQoS Configuration File
How to Define Traffic Forwarding in the IPQoS Configuration File
How to Enable Accounting for a Class in the IPQoS Configuration File
How to Create an IPQoS Configuration File for a Best-Effort Web Server
Creating an IPQoS Configuration File for an Application Server
How to Configure the IPQoS Configuration File for an Application Server
How to Configure Forwarding for Application Traffic in the IPQoS Configuration File
How to Configure Flow Control in the IPQoS Configuration File
Providing Differentiated Services on a Router
How to Configure a Router on an IPQoS-Enabled Network
4. Starting and Maintaining IPQoS (Tasks)
Administering IPQoS (Task Map)
Applying an IPQoS Configuration
How to Apply a New Configuration to the IPQoS Kernel Modules
How to Ensure That the IPQoS Configuration Is Applied After Each Reboot
Enabling
syslog
Logging for IPQoS Messages
How to Enable Logging of IPQoS Messages During Booting
Troubleshooting with IPQoS Error Messages
5. Using Flow Accounting and Statistics Gathering (Tasks)
Setting Up Flow Accounting (Task Map)
Recording Information About Traffic Flows
How to Create a File for Flow-Accounting Data
Gathering Statistical Information
6. IPQoS in Detail (Reference)
IPQoS Architecture and the Diffserv Model
Classifier Module
IPQoS Selectors
Meter Module
tokenmt
Metering Module
Configuring
tokenmt
as a Single-Rate Meter
Configuring
tokenmt
as a Two-Rate Meter
Configuring
tokenmt
to Be Color Aware
tswtclmt
Metering Module
Marker Module
Using the
dscpmk
Marker for Forwarding Packets
Expedited Forwarding (EF) PHB
Assured Forwarding (AF) PHB
Supplying a DSCP to the Marker
Using the
dlcosmk
Marker With VLAN Devices
IPQoS Configuration for Systems With VLAN Devices
flowacct
Module
flowacct
Parameters
Flow Table
flowacct
Records
Using
acctadm
with the
flowacct
Module
IPQoS Configuration File
action
Statement
Module Definitions
class
Clause
filter
Clause
params
Clause
ipqosconf
Configuration Utility
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