A Quick MQC Review

Over time, various Cisco IOS Software versions and hardware platforms have invented different ways to control QoS behaviors (policing, marking, queuing, and dropping). There have been many different CLIs that accomplish very similar things. A GSR QoS configuration was different from a 7200 configuration was different from a 7500 configuration, and so forth.

Along came MQC. MQC's goal is to unify all the QoS configuration steps into a single, flexible CLI that can be used across all IOS platforms.

This chapter covers only the MQC, because that is the preferred way to configure QoS. You can configure QoS services in other ways, but they are not covered here. If you have questions about a specific router model or software version, ...

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