Avaya P580 - Manual (Page 640)

20-2 Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switch User Guide, v5.3.1
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ports is 1023 to 1. If there is traffic to be serviced from both the
high- and normal-priority queues, 999 packets of high-priority
traffic will be processed for each normal-priority packet.
When the high-priority queue fills up, incoming frames are
dropped. The philosophy is if a high-priority frame is going to be
late, it is not worth sending it at all. The normal-priority queue uses
either IEEE 802.3X PAUSE (variable timed XOFF) flow control or
Half Duplex collisions to shut off incoming frames before the queue
overflows.
The switch implements two flow control disciplines along the entire
path that frames travel. The default case is that when output buffers
fill up, frames destined for a particular buffer will be dropped. This
should only occur in a case where the output port is very congested.
However, there is an optional mode in which normal-priority
frames are never dropped inside the switch. In this mode, input
buffers may fill up. If they do, the affected input ports may use flow
control to temporarily halt traffic from neighboring switches.
Managing Buffers and Queues
You can manage buffers and queues using either the Web Agent or
the CLI.
Managing
Buffers and
Queues Using
the Web Agent
To manage buffers and queues using the Web Agent:
1. Select Configuration from the Modules & Ports group on
the Web Agent window. The Module Information dialog
box opens (Figure 6-179).