It depends... :-) What scheduler are you talking about exactly? Drop precedence is used to differentiate within the same class, not between the classes. AF11 is in CS1 and AF23 is in CS2... It's similar to scheduler chosing bananaes while being offered apples and oranges... :-)
-- Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 Senior Technical Instructor - IPexpert YES! We include 400 hours of REAL rack time with our Blended Learning Solution! Mailto: [email protected] Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 Fax: +1.810.454.0130 Web: http://www.ipexpert.com/ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 13:21, Fabio Mendes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Suppose I have two packets: one marked as AF11 and another one marked as > AF23. > If the scheduler were to choose between one of them, which one would be ? > > Despite the fact that AF23 packet belongs to a queue that is suppose to get > a better queueing treatment it has the higher probability to be discarded. > In the other hand, AF11 packet belongs to a lower priority queue but it has > the lowest discarding probabability. > How does the scheduler decide which packet to send to the hardware queue ? > > > Thanks ! > -- > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
