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- From: mhump@sparky.msfc.nasa.gov (Mark Humphries)
- Subject: Re: priority queing
- Message-ID: <721447973.935@news.Colorado.EDU>
- Sender: news
- Date: 4 Nov 92 08:47:11 CST
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- I understand that guaranteed bandwidth is not the inteneded purpose of
- priority queuing but rather guaranteed throughput or priority throughput.
- I know you can't configure the router (with priority queuing or any other
- commands) to guarantee 20% of BW to #1 nets or 80% of BW for certain
- protocols. However, my theory was that if two groups of nets are assigned
- the same priority, the router should equally balance it's queue dropping
- between them. This would effectively give the two groups of networks equal
- time or resources (or each 50% of BW, or 33.333% of BW for 3 groups).
-
- Let's assume their is a heavy traffic load (which is causing packet queues to
- fill up) through Router A to Router B (or the reverse). Router A must make a
- decision concerning which queue to drop packets from. The group of nets who
- have the lowest priority will have their packets dropped first. However, what
- about the case where there is equal priority. If they DO have equal priority,
- it seems that the Cisco should balance queue dropping equally between them. If
- this is the case, this would be a way to guarantee two groups of networks (or
- traffic from two interfaces) equal resources i.e. equal througput i.e. equal
- bandwidth.
-
- I guess my questions should be:
-
- 1) Does the configuration below assign the same priority to the two groups
- of networks in the access lists?
-
- priority-list 1 protocol ip high ip list 100
- priority-list 2 protocol ip high ip list 200
-
- access-list 100
- (#1 Nets behind Router 1)
- .
- .
-
- access-list 200
- (#2 Nets behind Router 2)
- .
- .
-
-
-
- 2) If it does mean equal priority, how would the Cisco drop packets from
- these priority queues in the scenario described above?
-
-
- Mark Humphries
- Boeing Computer S. S.
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Huntsville, AL
-
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- Mark,
-
- I don't think there is any way of achieving this, but maybe someone else has a
- suggestion.
-
- Priority queuing lets you configure which packets are *discarded first* when the
- link starts getting saturated. You'd probably want to configure both sides the
- same way for it to work well.
-
- Maybe this is good enough?
-
- Regards,
-
- David.
-
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- >
- >
- > Is there any way to use priority queing on the Ciscos to guarantee
- > bandwidth to two seperate groups of networks sharing one serial
- > link to their corresponding networks on the other side of the link?
- >
- > Sorry, there is no way to do that with priority queueing. Thank you
- > for the suggestion.
- >
- > Tony
- >
- >
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