Users Guide
buffer packet-pointers
• Apply the buer prole to a line card.
CONFIGURATION mode
buffer fp-uplink linecard
• Apply the buer prole to a CSF to FP link.
CONFIGURATION mode
buffer csf linecard
Examples of Viewing Buer Information
Dell Networking OS Behavior: If you attempt to apply a buer prole to a non-existent port-pipe, Dell Networking OS displays the 
following message: %DIFFSERV-2-DSA_BUFF_CARVING_INVALID_PORT_SET: Invalid FP port-set 2 for linecard 
2. Valid range of port-set is <0-1>. However, the conguration still appears in the running-cong.
Conguration changes take eect immediately and appear in the running conguration. Because under normal conditions all ports do not 
require the maximum allocation, the congured dynamic allocations can exceed the actual amount of available memory; this allocation is 
called oversubscription. If you choose to oversubscribe the dynamic allocation, a burst of trac on one interface might prevent other 
interfaces from receiving the congured  dynamic allocation, which causes packet loss.
You cannot allocate more than the available memory for the dedicated buers. If the system determines that the sum of the congured 
dedicated buers allocated to the queues is more than the total available memory, the conguration is rejected, returning a syslog message 
similar to the following: .
Dell Networking OS Behavior: When you remove a buer-prole using the no buffer-profile [fp | csf] command from 
CONFIGURATION mode, the buer-prole name still appears in the output of the show buffer-profile [detail | summary] 
command. After a line card reset, the buer prole correctly returns to the default values, but the prole name remains. Remove it from the 
show buffer-profile [detail | summary] command output by entering no buffer [fp-uplink |csf] linecard 
port-set buffer-policy from CONFIGURATION mode and no buffer-policy from INTERFACE mode.
To display the allocations for any buer prole, use the show commands.
To display the default buer prole, use the show buffer-profile {summary | detail} command from EXEC Privilege mode.
The following example shows viewing the default buer prole.
Dell#show buffer-profile detail interface tengigabitethernet 1/1/1/1
Interface Te 1/1/1/1
Buffer-profile -
Dynamic buffer 194.88 (Kilobytes)
Queue# Dedicated Buffer Buffer Packets
 (Kilobytes)
0 2.50 256
1 2.50 256
2 2.50 256
3 2.50 256
4 9.38 256
5 9.38 256
6 9.38 256
7 9.38 256
The following example shows viewing the buer prole allocations.
Dell#show running-config interface tengigabitethernet 1/1/1/1 !
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1/1/1
no ip address
mtu 9216
switchport
no shutdown
buffer-policy myfsbufferprofile
978
Debugging and Diagnostics










