CoS Device Configuration Overview

Before you begin configuring a Juniper Networks device for CoS, complete the following tasks:

• Determine whether the device needs to support different traffic streams, such as voice or video. If so, CoS helps to make sure this traffic receives more than basic best-effort packet delivery service.

• Determine whether the device is directly attached to any applications that send CoS-classified packets. If no sources are enabled for CoS, you must configure and apply rewrite rules on the interfaces facing the sources.

• Determine whether the device must support assured forwarding (AF) classes. Assured forwarding usually requires random early detection (RED) drop profiles to be configured and applied.

• Determine whether the device must support expedited forwarding (EF) classes with a policer. Policers require you to apply a burst size and bandwidth limit to the traffic flow, and set a consequence for packets that exceed these limits—usually a high loss priority, so that packets exceeding the policer limits are discarded first.