On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Thomas M. Knoll <knoll@etit.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

The switch fabric is over engineered and�so are the customer ports.
Within this constellation, there is no chance and no need for 802.1p. Full
stop.

Is there not the consideration of failure or unanticipated traffic event scenarios which mean that prioritisation of certain traffic would be desirable? In the abnormal event of congestion, would not the peers like traffic marked as high priority to be preserved over the L2 matrix?
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