From: Balaji Siva (bsivasub@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 26 2005 - 03:27:51 GMT-3
Flowcontrol makes the switch to queue the packet if it receives pause
frame from neighbor and hence may contradict your intent (to send the
pkts asap by qos).
On 26 Mar 2005 05:51:25 -0000, MANU mohan <cciemanu@rediffmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi group,
>
> Just gone through the 3550-configuration guide on DOCcd.In
> the "Configuring QoS" chapter and under the section "Configuring Standard QoS"
> they have told that
>
> "You must disable the IEEE 802.3X flowcontrol on all
> ports before enabling QoS on the switch. To
> disable it, use the "flowcontrol
> receive off" and "flowcontrol send off" interface configuration commands."
> Before this I have never given this command before giving "mls qos" command.I
> haven't seen any refernce to this in any of the other books I have
> referred.So is it neccesary to turn off the flowcontrol before enabling QoS ?
> If yes, Why? Thanks in advance.
>
> Manu
>
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