[nsp] Cisco 2950 & QoS

[Michael Loftis]

The 2950 is a switch, not a router.  It has only very basic rate limit 
functions and indeed only gets 1Mbit increments on the rates on 100mbit 
ports, and 10mbit on the gig-e ports.  It is not suitable for rate limiting 
at all.  It is also not suitable for QoS as it doesn't really tag packets, 
just follows existing 802.1p tags.

--On Tuesday, March 23, 2004 21:29 -0800 John Pang 
<whoami1234_1234 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was thinking of implementing some form of simple
> QoS/rate-limiting on my edge network which connects to
> the outside world and came across the Cisco 2950
> series switches.
>
> Assuming my internet connection comes in the form of
> an Ethernet connection, instead of getting my edge
> routers (i.e. Cisco 2621) to run QoS, would it be
> possible to connect as follows:
>
>       C2621 -> C2950 -> Internet
>
> So that in this way the 2621 will not be bogged down
> doing QoS and ratelimit stuff?
>
> If such a config is feasible, would the ratelimiting &
> QoS on the 2950 be able to prevent excessively high
> packet counts and bandwidth from hitting the 2621?
>
> Last but not least, will the 2950 appear as another
> hop on the path to the internet or it is fundamentally
> still a switch and is "transparent"?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions,
>
>
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