First of all, thanks mate for your inputs here...
I'll quickly give a brief setup and the requirement, followed by my planning based on the reading so far that I could make use of.
The setup is -
There are 2x cisco WAN routers running QoS on the egress traffic intended to the WAN Cloud (Satellite).
Each WAN router has a nortel switch where we need to make changes so that the traffic marked by routers is regarded.
So my idea was to do one of the two things:
1. make the uplink port trust as you have shown in your case and leave the rest unrestricted.
or
2. make all the ports unrestricted. this is cos while i was going through a manual from the Avaya,it mentioned the following:
"With a port role combination of un-restricted, the DSCP value is passed as-is and is not looked at by the ERS 5500 internal QoS mapping. This does not apply to the p-bit which is looked at, honoured, and mapped according to the QoS priority mapping table."
Now I was not sure if this QoS priority mapping table it is referring to, is the table mapping the DSCP with 802.1p or something else??
If it is the that mapping, then according to the below map-table taken from the nortel switch that I have taken, the packets hitting the switch from the router would regard the DSCP value (as it is) and map it to the corresponding value from the below table.
Nortel-5520#sho qos egressmap
DSCP 802.1p Priority Drop Precedence Name
____ _______________ _______________ ________________
0 0 High Drop Standard Service
1 0 High Drop Standard Service
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25 0 High Drop Standard Service
26 4 Low Drop Gold Service
27 0 High Drop Standard Service
..
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...
39 0 High Drop Standard Service
40 6 Low Drop Premium Service
41 0 High Drop Standard Service
42 0 High Drop Standard Service
43 0 High Drop Standard Service
44 0 High Drop Standard Service
45 0 High Drop Standard Service
color gray]46 6 Low Drop Premium Service[/color]
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So as an example, voice traffic marked as "EF" would be mapped to 802.1p queue 6 which has low drop and premium service. Please correct if i am going on the wrong path....
Thanks again.