
Configuring Traffic Filters and Protocol Prioritization
1-4
Chapter 4 lists protocol-specific outbound filter criteria and actions. Chapter 7
explains how to use the Configuration Manager to apply outbound filters.
What Is Protocol Prioritization?
As a router operates, network traffic from a variety of sources converges at each
interface. Without protocol prioritization, the router transmits packets in a first-in,
first-out (FIFO) order. By implementing protocol prioritization, you instruct the
router to use a different transmit order for specified ranges of packets.
With protocol prioritization enabled, the router sorts WAN traffic on an individual
interface into three delivery queues of varying precedence, called
priority queues
.
The router then uses a dequeuing allocation algorithm to drain the priority queues
and transmit traffic.
Protocol prioritization is considered an outbound filter mechanism because
• Priority queues affect the sequence in which data leaves an interface; they do
not affect traffic as it enters the router
• You use outbound traffic filters to specify whether and how traffic gets sorted
into queues
• Protocol prioritization supports only WAN protocols
Outbound filters that include a priority queue action are sometimes called
priority
filters
.
Two Types of Site Manager Protocol Prioritization
There are two separate implementations of protocol priority queuing. For WAN
protocols supported by outbound traffic filters, Site Manager supports a high,
normal, and low priority queue at the circuit interface level. The router
automatically queues frames that do not match a traffic filter to the normal queue.
Refer to Chapter 2 to learn more about this basic (circuit-based) priority queuing
and dequeuing.
Note:
Outbound LAN traffic filters do not support protocol prioritization.
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