Lab ips-10 - QoS LLQ + CBWFQ on WAN Egress

Attach a QoS policy to WAN egress: priority percent builds an LLQ for voice, bandwidth percent builds CBWFQ for the rest, and show policy-map interface proves each class with packet counters. Builds on the ips-09 marking lab.

Lab ips-10 - QoS LLQ + CBWFQ on WAN Egress - PingLabz Labs article title card

The previous lab (ips-09) classified and marked traffic. This one APPLIES the policy to a WAN-egress interface and uses two queueing mechanisms: LLQ (Low Latency Queue) for voice traffic, CBWFQ (Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing) for everything else. The combination is the canonical Cisco QoS pattern for WAN edge devices.

What you will learn

  • Attaching a policy-map to an interface with service-policy output
  • How priority percent N in a class becomes an LLQ
  • How bandwidth percent N in a class becomes CBWFQ
  • How to read show policy-map interface with packet counters per class

What this lab does NOT cover

  • Class-map / policy-map definition - that was ips-09
  • Policing and shaping (different mechanisms)

Topology

Download the CCNA Base Topology .yaml

3 iol-xe routers + 1 alpine + 1 ioll2-xe managed switch.

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