August 2008
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
22h 27m
English
book
The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology, Second Edition
by Rich Seifert, James Edwards
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Chapter 13. Priority Operation
Up until now, our switches have dealt with all user traffic equally; no preferred treatment was given to one group of users or type of traffic over others. In this chapter, you look at the mechanisms used to prioritize traffic flow through a switch.