Method and system for controlling network traffic within the same connection with different packet tags by varying the policies applied to a connection

摘要

A method and system for controlling network traffic with different tags within the same connection by applying policies for each tag are disclosed. A method is disclosed in which incoming traffic is received. A traffic class is assigned to the incoming traffic. A policy is assigned to the incoming traffic based on the assigned traffic class. Outgoing traffic is controlled based on the assigned policy for the incoming traffic.