Dynamic adjustment of multicast drop thresholds to guarantee fairness between multicast and unicast frames

摘要

A network device for managing data flow can have a data port configured to receive data, a plurality of pointers for pointing to the data received, and a queue for queuing the plurality of pointers. The queue can be configured to have at least one dynamic threshold therein. Furthermore, the network device can have a control module configured to adjust the at least one dynamic threshold with respect to the data flow.