Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Network audit report

The LAN edge of the network audit report can have egress and ingress policies. Because you have been dealing with egress policies since the WAN/branch discussion began, and because the egress policies are not only optional, but also considerably simpler, they are discussed first.
As previously mentioned, it is better to mark at Layer 3 (DSCP) instead of Layer 2 whenever possible because Layer 2 markings are lost when the transmission medium changes. This is the case with any Ethernet 802.1Q/p CoS values that have been set within the campus and are carried over a WAN (or VPN). In some cases, network administrators prefer to have these markings restored at the branch; DSCP-to-CoS mapping then can be performed on the branch router's LAN edge.

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