ZyXEL Communications P-661HNU-Fx User Manual

 Chapter 10 Quality of Service (QoS)

ADSL Series User’s Guide

The following table describes the labels in this screen.  

Class Setup: Add/Edit

Class Configuration

Active

Select to enable this classifier.

Class Name

Enter a descriptive name of up to 32 printable English keyboard characters, including 
spaces.

Classification Order

Select an existing number for where you want to put this classifier to move the 
classifier to the number you selected after clicking Apply.

Select Last to put this rule in the back of the classifier list.

Forward to Interface

Select a WAN interface through which traffic of this class will be forwarded out. If you 
select Unchange, the ZyXEL Device forward traffic of this class according to the 
default routing table.

DSCP Mark

This field is available only when you select the Ether Type check box in Criteria 
Configuration-Basic section.

If you select Mark, enter a DSCP value with which the ZyXEL Device replaces the 
DSCP field in the packets.

If you select Unchange, the ZyXEL Device keep the DSCP field in the packets.

To Queue

Select a queue that applies to this class.

You should have configured a queue in the Queue Setup screen already.

Criteria Configuration

Use the following fields to configure the criteria for traffic classification.

Basic

From Interface 

Select whether the traffic class comes from the LAN or a wireless interface.

Ether Type

Select a predefined application to configure a class for the matched traffic.

If you select IP, you also need to configure source or destination MAC address, IP 
address, DHCP options, DSCP value or the protocol type.

Source

MAC Address

Select the check box and enter the source MAC address of the packet.

MAC Mask

Type the mask for the specified MAC address to determine which bits a packet’s MAC 
address should match. 

Enter “f” for each bit of the specified source MAC address that the traffic’s MAC 
address should match. Enter “0“ for the bit(s) of the matched traffic’s MAC address, 
which can be of any hexadecimal character(s). For example, if you set the MAC 
address to 00:13:49:00:00:00 and the mask to ff:ff:ff:00:00:00, a packet with a MAC 
address of 00:13:49:12:34:56 matches this criteria.

IP Address

Select the check box and enter the source IP address in dotted decimal notation. A 
blank source IP address means any source IP address. 

IP Subnet Mask

Enter the source subnet mask.

Port Range

If you select TCP or UDP in the IP Protocol field, select the check box and enter the 
port number(s) of the source. 

Exclude

Select this option to exclude the packets that match the specified criteria from this 
classifier.

Destination

MAC Address

Select the check box and enter the destination MAC address of the packet.