WFQ on a DS3?

Bob · Guest

We upgraded from several T1's to a partial DS3 (18Mb) to the Internet.
Our router is a 7204VXR. The default queueing mechanism is FIFO
because of the interface speed. Would it be beneficial to any of the
flows if we enabled weighted fair-queueing instead? Any reason not
to?

-Bob

Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: Re: WFQ on a DS3?

WFQ allows low bandwidth flows (like telnet, HTTP, etc.) to have better
treatment on a link than high bandwidth flows (FTP, CIFS, etc.). So
when there are a lot of flows/connections on an interface, the high
traffic flows don't starve out the low traffic flows. If your
interface is taking a lot of traffic, WFQ may help you out some. It is
enabled with the "fair-queue" command on an interface or a policy-map.

Steve Griffin
www.blueconsole.com (Bluetooth Wireless Console Cable)