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Advanced>SNTP
SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) allows your modem to update its time auto-
matically using an SNTP server. To enable this feature, click the Enable SNTP tick
box.
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Option
Description
Primary, Seco°dary,
Tertiary SNTP Servers
This allows you to enter three different
SNTP server addresses. If one of these
servers is unavailable your modem
will use an alternative.
An example
of an NTP server on the Internet is
128.250.36.3.
Timeout:
The number of seconds your modem will
attempt to connect to an SNTP server
before trying an alternative server
should the server you are trying to con-
nect to be unavailable.
Polli°± I°terval:
The interval that your modem will up-
date its time with an SNTP server.
Retry Cou°t:
The number of attempts at connecting
to an SNTP server.
Time Zo°e:
Select the time zone you are in.
Day Li±ht:
Enable this to enable daylight savings
for the time on your modem.
Click Apply to save the settings.
To check that your NB5Plus4/W modem is talking to an NTP server, follow these
instructions for Windows Operating Systems:
1. Open a Command Prompt (Start > Run > cmd).
2. Type telnet 192.168.1.1 (or the IP address of your modem) and enter.
3. Type your login and password.
Login:
admin
Password:
admin
4. date [ENTER key]
5. Note that the date is set correctly.
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Advanced>IPQoS
IP QoS (Quality of Service) allows you to set priorities for traffic travelling through
your modem. For example, you may want to prioritize your UDP traffic over your
TCP traffic.
Typical UDP traffic would be your VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
traffic. This section describes how to make use of your modem’s IPQoS feature.
The NB5Plus4/W should have two primary sections for setting up IP QoS services:
1.
A QoS setup page to configure the upstream/downstream connection queue
priorities, and
2. A Rules configuration page.
QoS Setup Page
The QoS setup page will have 2 primary fields:
1. Connection name selection,
2. A table to select queue weights for the system transmit queues.
IP QoS traffic shaping is associated with any transmitted traffic from the perspective
of the NB5Plus4/W. Each interface has 3 priority queues associated with transmit
data. The web UI will allow the user to choose any interface connection and select
the priority weights associated with that connection. For Example; the user could
have a connection named WAN1 or a connection named LAN1. If the user selects
WAN1 the transmit queues will be associated with that connection, and likewise
with LAN1 (Refer to the following diagrams). All interfaces on the LAN are currently
bridged and therefore the only connection name is that name associated with the
LAN.
Transmit queues associated with WAN connection
Transmit queues associated with LAN connection
The high priority queue has strict priority over the medium and low priority queue,
and therefore can exhaust all available bandwidth. The web UI will allow the user to
select the weights of the medium and low priority queues in increments of 10 per
-
cent so that the sum of the weights of the 2 queues is equal to 100 percent. These
queues will be serviced on a Round Robin priority basis according to the weights
assigned, after the high priority queue has been completely serviced.
Rules Configuration Page
The Rules configuration page will allow the user to define IP matching fields to asso
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ciate with the priority queues associated with the named connections selected above
in the “QoS Setup Page” section.
There will be three primary fields for the user to select: 1.) A Trusted mode check
box. 2.) A traffic priority choice (High, Medium, Low), and 3.) An IP rules matching
selection area.
The NB5Plus4/W has two primary modes of operation with regard to queue traffic
prioritization; Trusted, and Un-trusted. The Web UI will provide one check box to
enable trusted mode. In trusted mode all rules will be applied first regardless of the
setting of the TOS bits. After the rules have been exhausted the existing TOS bit
settings will be honoured. If the “Trusted mode” box is unchecked this will indicate
the “Un-trusted mode.” “Un-trusted” mode will match first against all rules as in
“Trusted” mode. The difference is that if there is no match then a default rule will be
used. The default rule will have an associated queuing priority.
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Rule definitions will be defined by the user by allowing the user to select matching
based on Source IP, Destination IP, IP Protocol, Source Port, Destination Port, and
Incoming Mac Port (switched LAN Port). These selections will define a rule and be
associated with a particular queue priority: High, Medium, and Low.
Traffic Queuing Configuration
Based on the TOS (DSCP) marking, the NB5Plus4/W shall prioritize the traffic serv
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icing on the outgoing interface (facing the Access Network) using a 3-band priority
mechanism as described below.
Queue Priorities:
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One Expedited Forwarding (EF) Queue: High Priority queue with non-preemptible
service. The EF queue is always scheduled first prior to the medium and low priority
queues and runs to completion
Two Queues (Medium and Low Priority) with Weighted Round Robin service. Based
on the associated weights, packets on these queues share the remaining link
bandwidth (after the EF service). The low priority queue corresponds to Best Effort
service. Looking forward, the medium priority queue will play the role of Assured
Forwarding Queue.
Configuration:
a.) The Medium, and Low Priority Queue weights will be selectable via the Web UI.
User weights for these two queues are entered as a percentage in increments of
10%. The sum of the 2 weights must be equal to 100 percent.
En-queuing Policy
Inter-queue isolation to make greed work on the Residential Gateway: the transmit
interface buffer (a common pool for all queues) can be monopolized by a greedy
flow on the low priority queue thus preventing en-queuing high priority traffic. To
prevent such conditions the en-queuing process is using a simple configurable al
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location of per-queue lengths, adding up to the total queue length.
Configuration:
The Expedited Forwarding queue (fast service queue) length will be configurable via
the config.xml file. This parameter will not be configurable via the Web UI.
Please
call NetComm Support and request to speak with an engineer should you require
this XML file to edit.

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