[f-nsp] help on QOS for ip phones

Eric Helm helmwork at ruraltel.net
Tue Oct 13 18:14:00 EDT 2009



francois.viau at rrsss16.gouv.qc.ca wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> We have juste added some ip phones on our network and I'm trying to set 
> the qos with a priority of 1 on the ip phones vlan.
> I see that I can do it by  port but this is not really convenient has the 
> port is in dual-mode with a pc I rather do it by vlan  because my pc is in 
> vlan 10 and my phones are in vlan 30 .
> Si if I can set the priority of 1 in vlan 30 that would be great but I 
> dont see the option on how  to do it  anyone have an idea that would be 
> really great
> 
> Also if i'm reading correctly foundry by default  assign the qos has 
> weighted fair queuing and I think changing that to qos mechanism strict 
> would be better ? am I right ..
> 
Diffserv would be a more preferred way to provide QoS here. Do the
phones mark the IP header with DSCP bits?


What model are your switches? Depending on the switch model(s), there
are a couple different configurations. If they are FGS or FCX, are they
in a stack configuration?

/Eric



More information about the foundry-nsp mailing list