For QoS-based trace analysis at the HPWREN-internet perimeter traffic tracking machine it turned out to be difficult to differentiate between traffic entering or leaving HPWREN. The easiest solution seemd to be to set everything heading into HPWREN from the 3825 router to an otherwise unused DSCP value (1): # external traffic coming into HPWREN from SDSC # hpwren-internet-router: policy-map hpwren-internetsource class class-default set dscp 1 interface GigabitEthernet0/0 service-policy input hpwren-internetsource interface GigabitEthernet1/0 service-policy input hpwren-internetsource The traffic impact should be negligible, as the connected backbone router immediately resets the QoS attributes to the proper values anyway.