Egress Queuing on Catalyst 6500

[Heinz Kern]

hi,

i have a question regarding egress queuing on cat6500 modules. e.g. WS-X 6704 has 1p7q4t is egress-modell. my goal is to limit the priority queue to 15% of the available bandwidth.

i can put weights on the wrr-queues and limit their ressources: "wrr-queue bandwidth 50 20 15 0 0 0 0." but this isn´t possible for the priority-queue. only available command is "priority-queue queue-limit 15" but this only restricts the buffer to 15%.

at the end of the day i want to prevent that the wrr-queues don´t have remaining bandwidth when the priority-queue is saturated.

is there an easy way to restrict the bandwidth of the priority queue or do i have to implement additionally some kind of policing?

thx

[Marwan ALshawi]

allocate bandwidth to other queues as you did and leave 15% which will be used by the PQ

[Heinz Kern]

but what happens in thois case if i have 10Gig traffic which is marked with EF. in this case everything is transported in the priority queue and all other queues don´t have any bandwidth. is my assumption correct or do i understand something wrong?

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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I believe the "typical" LAN 6500 line card will allow a PQ queue to utilize 100% bandwidth.

For traffic that uses "EF", it ought to be known and subject to admission control.  If this is done, you shouldn't unexpectedly have EF traffic consume all your 10gig bandwidth.

[Marwan ALshawi]

Yes Joseph right the PQ always serviced first and could take over other classes bandwidth

If you really have concern about it

The in inbound direction use a policed to police traffic marked with dscp ef to a specified amount

And the higher amount could be marked down instead if drop it

HTH

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[Heinz Kern]

thanky ou very much. that´s what i wanted to know