[c-nsp] Is the policy map order signficant and can it be changed?

[Tim Franklin]

> On the ingress interface I mark VOIP packets with "set dscp ef".
> 
> Then on the Egress I had a class/policy-map that looks looks for
> "dscp ef", and there is another class which matches things based
> on IP addres which also over-laps the VOIP devices.
> 
> My question is, when there are overlapping classes in policy-map, how
> does IOS decide what class to match? I was told it was "most specific
> to least specific", but that doesn't seem to be true.

It's top-down in the order you enter the classes into the policy map.

Regards,
Tim.