[c-nsp] ingress vs egress queues
Aaron Riemer
ariemer at amnet.net.au
Thu Mar 3 20:05:20 EST 2011
Thanks again Phil.
Cheers,
-Aaron
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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers
Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2011 6:34 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ingress vs egress queues
On 03/03/2011 03:30 AM, Aaron Riemer wrote:
> Hey guys,
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> Can someone please explain to me the difference between ingress and egress
> queues on catalyst switches?
Ingress queues are more or less useless[1], since most Catalyst switches
have non-blocking (or nearly so) fabric/interconnects.
Egress queues are useful, for all the "normal" reasons.
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> I always thought Ingress was traffic coming 'in' to the switch port from a
> device and egress traffic coming out of the port but I don't think this is
> correct?
You were right. Ingress/Egress are from the perspective of the switch.
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> Does a packet first go through the ingress queue and then to the egress
> queue before it is 'switched'.
Yes
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> I have been trying to find some good documentation to aid my understanding
> in this area. If anyone could help me out with this it would be greatly
> appreciated.
The QoS SRND is useful for background info on Catalyst QoS. Other links
have been posted to the list fairly recently - have a look at the archives.
Regards,
Phil
[1] If you believe the explanation in the QoS SRND, which I find
reasonably convincing.
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