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Note, in the modern network devices, network interfaces mostly are combined and can operate as both incoming and outgoing.
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Figure 1 - A network device traffic passing scheme |
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With QoS configured, each of the incoming traffic flows can be classified by its type (for example) and map a separate queue to each class (Figure 2b). КEach Each packet queue can be assigned a priority, which will be taken into account during packets extraction from queues, and will guarantee quality indicators. The traffic flows classification can be performed not only by the services used, but according to other criteria. For example, each pair of nodes can be assigned a separate message queue (Figure 2c).
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