I Don't know if this is a solution that is not better suited for your Linux Distro, using vconfig and a 802.1q/1p aware NIC, on the * Server, to create and prioitize the Ingress and Egress Voice VLAN traffic.

Would you not agree?

Sean












On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:14:17 +0200, Eugenio De Vena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Thanks for your kind help, I understand ip precedence and that's ok. I also
found on Snom phones how to mark 802.1p ( which is what I need now ). On
the 3Com 3300 802.1p is enabled and correctly priorized . The only thing I miss
is how to tell asterisk to originate rtp packet marked with 802.1p tag ( at layer 2 )
Any idea?


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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] 802.1p , precedence and TOS



Questions:
1) How can I set the 802.1p precedence field from Snom and asterisk?

2) Which is the differences between the IP Precedence field and TOS
 field?

IP Precednce and ToS are synonymous. There is a 3-bit ToS field in the IP header that allows for 8 levels of classification of IP traffic - these are known as the IP precedence bits.

802.1p or CoS (Class of Service) is a Layer 2 Prioitization protocol. 802.1p uses a 3-bit prioitization field, in an 802.1q TAG,to define 8 priority levels. To obtain the correct Layer 2 CoS on your 3300 I believe you need to set the prioritization on the IP phone, using 802.1q and then setting the prioritization, and then configure the clasifiers and profiles on the 3Com 3300 so that it will remark the packets on ingress. The CoS traffic classification will need to be configured on ALL Switches in your network for the 802.1p prioritzation of the Voice traffic.

Most layer 3 Switches support both ToS and CoS and will re-mark the 802.1p Prioritization into the ToS field in the IP header, so that if the traffic is being routed, between VLANs for example, the traffic will maintain it's priority.


Hope this helps.

Sean


On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:28:43 +0200, Eugenio De Vena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hello everyone, I have some doubt on the QoS matter and I hope that someone
could
bring me some light.
I see my 3Com 3300 switch supports 802.1p priorization ,
I see through Microsoft network monitor that the packet coming from my SIP
phones
have in IP header a field which is marked "Precedence" and when the packet
is sent from
phone to asterisk the value is "CRITICAL/EXP" , when the packet is sent back
from asterisk
to phone the value is "Normal". To correct this I set the value "Tos" in
sip.conf to 160 and now
the packet sent back from asterisk to phone is marked "CRITICAL/EXP" too.
Fine.
Under the field "Precedence" there is a value called "Type of Service" (
TOS ) and the values is
"Normal" both ways.


Googling around I see that 802.1p is a Layer2 and not Layer3 specification
so it must work at MAC level,
so I think that these field which are contained into the IP header are not
considered by my switch and are just ignored.
The Ip precedence field I think would be considered when routed by a QoS
router ( which is not my case ).


Questions:
1) How can I set the 802.1p precedence field from Snom and asterisk?
2) Which is the differences between the IP Precedence field and TOS field?


Thanks Everyone
Eugenio

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