EDS-518A Series User’s Manual

Featured Functions

 

 

Queuing Mechanism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting

Description

 

 

Factory Default

 

 

 

Weighted Fair

EDS-518A has 4 priority queues. In the weighted fair

 

 

 

 

 

 

scheme, an 8, 4, 2, 1 weighting is applied to the four

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

priorities. This approach prevents the lower priority

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

frames from being starved of opportunity for

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

transmission with only a slight delay to the higher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

priority frames.

 

 

Weight Fair

 

 

 

Strict

In the Strict-priority scheme, all top-priority frames

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

egress a port until that priority’s queue is empty, and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then the next lower priority queue’s frames egress. This

 

 

 

 

 

 

approach can cause the lower priorities to be starved of

 

 

 

 

 

 

opportunity for transmitting any frames but ensures all

 

 

 

 

 

 

high priority frames to egress the switch as soon as

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Port Highest Priority

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting

Description

 

 

Factory Default

 

 

 

Enable/Disable

Set the Port Priority of the ingress frames to “High”

 

 

Disable

 

 

 

 

 

queues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspect TOS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting

Description

 

 

Factory Default

 

 

 

Enable/Disable

Select the option to enable EDS-518A to inspect the

 

 

Enable

 

 

 

 

 

Type of Service (TOS) bits in IPV4 frame to determine

 

 

 

 

 

 

the priority of each frame.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspect COS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting

Description

 

 

Factory Default

 

 

 

Enable/Disable

Select the option to enable EDS-518A to inspect the

 

 

Enable

 

 

 

 

 

802.1p COS tag in the MAC frame to determine the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

priority of each frame.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE

The priority of an ingress frame is determined in order by:

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.

Port Highest Priority

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.

Inspect TOS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.

Inspect CoS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE

The designer can enable these classifications individually or in combination. For instance, if a

 

 

 

‘hot,’ higher priority port is required for a network design, “Inspect TOS” and “Inspect CoS” can

 

 

 

be disabled. This setting leaves only port default priority active, which results in all ingress

 

 

 

frames being assigned the same priority on that port.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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