Using Differentiated Services Codepoint (DSCP) mapping

The DSCP Policy Table associates an 802.1p priority with a DSCP codepoint in an IPv4/IPv6 packet. Using DSCP codepoints in your network allows you to set a LAN policy that operates independently of 802.1Q VLAN-tagging.

In the default state, most of the 64 codepoints do not assign an 802.1p priority, as indicated by No-override in the following Default DSCP policy table. However, some codepoints, such as Assured Forwarding and Expedited Forwarding, have a default 802.1p priority setting.

Use the following commands to display the DSCP Policy table, configure the codepoint-priority assignments, and assign optional names to the codepoints.

Syntax:


show qos dscp-map

Displays the DSCP Policy table.


qos dscp-map codepoint priority0 - 7 [name ascii-string]

Configures an 802.1p priority for the specified codepoint and an optional (DSCP policy) name.


no qos dscp-map codepoint

Removes the currently configured 802.1p priority that is associated with the specified codepoint and displays the No-override setting. The codepoint policy name, if configured, is also removed.


no qos dscp-map codepointname

Deletes only the policy name, if configured, for the specified codepoint.

The default DSCP policy table

DSCP Policy

802.1p Priority

DSCP Policy

802.1p Priority

DSCP Policy

802.1p Priority

000000

000001

000010

000011

000100

000101

000110

000111

001000

001001

001010

001011

001100

001101

001110

001111

010000

010001

010010

010011

010100

010101

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

1No-override

11

No-override

21

No-override

No-override

No-override

01

No-override

01

No-override

010110

010111

011000

011001

011010

011011

011100

011101

011110

011111

100000

100001

100010

100011

100100

100101

100110

100111

101000

101001

101010

31

No-override

No-override

No-override

41

No-override

41

No-override

51

No-override

No-override

No-override

61

No-override

61

No-override

71

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

101011

101100

101101

101110

101111

110000

110001

110010

110011

110100

110101

110110

110111

111000

111001

111010

111011

111100

111101

111110

111111

No-override

No-override

No-override

71No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

No-override

1

Expedited Forwarding codepoint configured by default.