dbl

Had to do some QoS today and ran across this dbl

Dynamic Buffer Limiting

Industry’s First Hardware and Flow-Based Congestion Avoidance at Wire Speed

A Cisco innovation, Dynamic Buffer Limiting (DBL) is the first flow-based congestion avoidance quality-of-service (QoS) technique suitable for high-speed hardware implementation. Operating on all ports in the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switch, DBL effectively recognizes and limits numerous misbehaving traffic flows, particularly flows in a network that are unresponsive to explicit congestion feedback such as packet drops (typically UDP-based traffic flows). It is a multiprotocol technique that can examine a flow’s Layer 2/3/4 fields.
DBL provides on-demand Active Queue Management by tracking the queue length for each traffic flow in the switch. When the queue length of a specific flow exceeds its limit, DBL will drop packets or mark the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) field in the packet headers, so the flow can be handled appropriately by servers in the unlikely event of network congestion. Unchecked flows—also known as belligerent or non-adaptive flows—use excessive bandwidth, and their consumption of switch buffers results in poor application performance for end users. This misbehaving traffic can also negatively affect well-behaved flows and wreak havoc with QoS.

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac114/ac173/Q1-06/p_19.html

I know it sounds a little sale pitchy, but still worth looking at.