Will half a packet be sent?

From: CCIEin2006 (ciscocciein2006@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 13:12:05 GMT-3

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Let say you have a serial link with congestion on it.
If the output queue only has room for 500 bytes, and a 1000 byte packet
enters the tail of the queue,
will 500 bytes of the packet be sent and the rest of the packet be dropped?

Or will the entire packet be dropped?

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