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Chapter 40 Differentiated Services
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kinds of traffic can be marked for different priorities of forwarding. Resources can 
then be allocated according to the DSCP values and the configured policies. 
40.1.2  DiffServ Network Example 
The following figure depicts a DiffServ network consisting of a group of directly 
connected DiffServ-compliant network devices. The boundary node (in 
) in a DiffServ network classifies (marks with a DSCP value) the incoming 
packets into different traffic flows (PlatinumGoldSilverBronze) based on the 
configured marking rules. A network administrator can then apply various traffic 
policies to the traffic flows. For example, one traffic policy would be to give higher 
drop precedence to one traffic flow over others. In our example packets in the 
Bronze traffic flow are more likely to be dropped when congestion occurs than the 
packets in the Platinum traffic flow as they move across the DiffServ network.
Figure 179   DiffServ Network 
40.2  Two Rate Three Color Marker Traffic 
Policing
Traffic policing is the limiting of the input or output transmission rate of a class of 
traffic on the basis of user-defined criteria. Traffic policing methods measure traffic 
flows against user-defined criteria and identify it as either conforming, exceeding 
or violating the criteria.
Two Rate Three Color Marker (TRTCM, defined in RFC 2698) is a type of traffic 
policing that identifies packets by comparing them to two user-defined rates: the 
Committed Information Rate (CIR) and the Peak Information Rate (PIR). The CIR 
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