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- From: tli@skat.usc.edu (Tony Li)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
- Subject: Re: priority queing
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 18:46:15 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <721447973.935@news.Colorado.EDU> mhump@sparky.msfc.nasa.gov (Mark Humphries) writes:
-
- 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).
-
- Sorry. Within a single queue, it's first come, first served.
-
- Tony
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