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Port Traffic Controls

Guaranteed Minimum Bandwidth (GMB)

Feature Default Menu CLI Web

bandwidth-min output Per-Queue:

2%-3%-30%-10%

10%-10%-15%-20%

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show bandwidth output [ port-list ] n/a n/a page 13-24 n/a

Introduction

Guaranteed Minimum Bandwidth (GMB) provides a method for ensuring that

each of a given port’s outbound traffic priority queues has a specified mini-

mum consideration for sending traffic out on the link to another device. This

can prevent a condition where applications generating lower-priority traffic

in the network are frequently or continually "starved" by high volumes of

higher-priority traffic. You can configure GMB per-port.

Terminology

Oversubscribed Queue: The condition where there is insufficient bandwidth

allocated to a particular outbound priority queue for a given port. If additional,

unused bandwidth is not available, the port delays or drops the excess traffic.

GMB Operation

The switch services per-port outbound traffic in a descending order of priority;

that is, from the highest priority to the lowest priority. By default, each port

offers eight prioritized, outbound traffic queues. Tagged VLAN traffic is prior-

itized according to the 802.1p priority the traffic carries. Untagged VLAN

traffic is assigned a priority of “0” (normal).

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