COMMAND LINE INTERFACE

Priority Commands

The commands described in this section allow you to specify which data packets have greater precedence when traffic is buffered in the switch due to congestion. This switch supports CoS with four priority queues for each port. Data packets in a port’s high-priority queue will be transmitted before those in the lower-priority queues. You can set the default priority for each interface, the relative weight of each queue, and the mapping of frame priority tags to the switch’s priority queues.

Table 4-57 Priority Commands

Command Groups

Function

Page

Priority (Layer 2)

Configures default priority for untagged frames,

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sets queue weights, and maps class of service tags

 

 

to hardware queues

 

 

 

 

Priority (Layer 3 and 4)

Maps TCP ports, IP precedence tags, or IP DSCP

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tags to class of service values

 

 

 

 

Priority Commands (Layer 2)

Table 4-58 Priority Commands (Layer 2)

Command

Function

Mode

Page

queue mode

Sets the queue mode to strict priority or

GC

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Weighted Round-Robin (WRR)

 

 

 

 

 

 

switchport priority

Sets a port priority for incoming untagged

IC

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default

frames

 

 

 

 

 

 

queue bandwidth

Assigns round-robin weights to the priority

GC

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queues

 

 

 

 

 

 

queue cos map

Assigns class-of-service values to the

IC

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priority queues

 

 

 

 

 

 

show queue mode

Shows the current queue mode

PE

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show queue

Shows round-robin weights assigned to the

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bandwidth

priority queues

 

 

 

 

 

 

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