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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2001
Philip D. Cole, Redwood City, CA (US);
Nils Ramon Marchant, Ocean Reef, AU;
Mike Reynolds, Sublaco, AU;
Edward G. Cavasian, San Carlos, CA (US);
James P. Scott, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Philip D. Cole, Redwood City, CA (US);
Nils Ramon Marchant, Ocean Reef, AU;
Mike Reynolds, Sublaco, AU;
Edward G. Cavasian, San Carlos, CA (US);
James P. Scott, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for discarding a priority fair share of traffic of network connections. In one example, the method receives traffic of at least a particular network connection. A portion of a fixed buffer allocation space is filled with traffic of the particular network connection, wherein a buffer in the fixed buffer allocation space is associated with a fixed buffer allocation queue identification. A portion of a prioritized fair share buffer space is filled with traffic of the particular network connection, wherein a buffer in the prioritized fair share buffer space is associated with a priority fair share queue identification. A portion of the lowest priority traffic of the network connections is discarded.