Tail drop – Allied Telesis AlliedWare Plus Operating System Version 5.4.4C (x310-26FT,x310-26FP,x310-50FT,x310-50FP) User Manual
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Quality of Service (QoS) Introduction
Software Reference for x310 Series Switches
C613-50046-01 REV A
AlliedWare Plus
TM
Operating System - Version 5.4.4C
38.25
Tail Drop
In this drop mode each egress queue is configured with a maximum threshold value. This
value represents the point where the egress buffer queues are full and the egress port
must start dropping data. The port does this by dropping data packets destined for the
full queue on a “last in first dropped” basis. This enables the port to clear its data already
queued for egress.
If a reliable transport protocol, such as TCP is used, this data should be retransmitted, but
at a slower rate due to lack of returning “acknowledgments”.
See also other documents in the category Allied Telesis Computer hardware:
- AT-GS908M (54 pages)
- AT-x230-10GP (80 pages)
- AT-GS950/10PS (386 pages)
- AT-GS950/48PS (64 pages)
- AT-GS950/16PS (386 pages)
- AT-GS950/48PS (386 pages)
- AT-9000 Series (1480 pages)
- AT-9000 Series (258 pages)
- IE200 Series (70 pages)
- AT-GS950/48 (410 pages)
- AT-GS950/8 (52 pages)
- AT-GS950/48 (378 pages)
- AT-GS950/48 (60 pages)
- SwitchBlade x8106 (322 pages)
- SwitchBlade x8112 (322 pages)
- SwitchBlade x8106 (240 pages)
- SwitchBlade x8112 (240 pages)
- AT-TQ Series (172 pages)
- FS970M Series (106 pages)
- 8100L Series (116 pages)
- 8100S Series (140 pages)
- x310 Series (120 pages)
- x310 Series (116 pages)
- AT-GS950/24 (404 pages)
- AT-GS950/24 (366 pages)
- AT-GS950/16 (44 pages)
- AT-GS950/16 (364 pages)
- AT-GS950/16 (404 pages)
- AT-GS950/8 (404 pages)
- AT-GS950/8 (364 pages)
- AT-GS950/8 (52 pages)
- AT-8100 Series (330 pages)
- AT-8100 Series (1962 pages)
- AT-FS970M Series (330 pages)
- AT-FS970M Series (1938 pages)
- SwitchBlade x3106 (288 pages)
- SwitchBlade x3112 (294 pages)
- SwitchBlade x3106 (260 pages)
- SwitchBlade x3112 (222 pages)
- AT-S95 CLI (AT-8000GS Series) (397 pages)
- AT-S94 CLI (AT-8000S Series) (402 pages)
- AT-IMC1000T/SFP (23 pages)
- AT-IMC1000TP/SFP (24 pages)
- AT-SBx3106WMB (44 pages)