Cisco CiscoWork QoS Policy Manager 4.1.2 User Guide

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Chapter 2      Planning for Quality of Service
What Types of Quality of Service Does QPM Handle?
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Packet marking can also be defined as part of a policing policy. In these cases, 
QPM uses Committed Access Rate (CAR) or MQC policing. See 
 for more information.
After you mark packets, you can define queuing, shaping, and policing policies 
that filter by marking value to create differentiated services.
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Some scheduling methods automatically prioritize traffic according to packet 
marking, and you do not need to deploy specific queuing policies for interfaces 
using those queuing methods. 
Related Topics
Traffic Policing for Limiting Bandwidth and Marking Traffic
Traffic policing allows you to control the rate of traffic sent or received on an 
interface. Traffic policing is often configured on interfaces at the edge of a 
network to limit traffic into or out of the network. 
You can specify one of the following actions for traffic that conforms to or 
exceeds the specified rate (depending on the type of policing):
Transmit—The packet is sent. 
Drop—The packet is discarded. 
Mark and transmit—The ToS bits in the packet header are rewritten. The 
packet is then sent. 
Markdown—This reduces the packets’ IP precedence or DSCP values 
according to a predefined markdown mapping table.
One of the main uses for policing policies is to ensure that traffic coming into your 
network does not exceed agreed-upon rates. If you define a policing policy for 
inbound traffic, you can throttle misbehaving traffic before it gets into your 
network. Because you control the traffic’s rate at the inbound interface, the traffic 
should be well-behaved while it is in your network.