The right packet scheduling mechanism for a router depends on its switching architecture.
Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) is a scheduling algorithm for resource allocation on Cisco
router platforms with a bus-based architecture. Cisco platforms using a switch fabric for
packet switching tend to use a scheduling algorithm that better suits that architecture.
In particular, the Cisco Catalyst family of switches and 8540 routers use the Modified
Weighted Round Robin (MWRR) algorithm, and the Cisco 12000 series routers use the
Modified Deficit Round Robin (MDRR) algorithm. Both MWRR and MDRR are similar ...
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