On MPC2E NG or MPC3E NG cards when traffic for forwarding class A utilizes excess bandwidth permanently and second forwarding class B didn't send traffic or send traffic on a rate much lower than guaranteed rate and suddenly start sending traffic with a rate much higher than guaranteed rate, it causes temporal unexpected WRED drops of traffic for forwarding class A
The problem happens under the following conditions:
user@router> show interfaces queue xe-0/2/0.804 Logical interface xe-0/2/0.804 (Index 366) (SNMP ifIndex 700) Forwarding classes: 16 supported, 7 in use Egress queues: 8 supported, 7 in use <snip> Queue: 4, Forwarding classes: A Queued: <snip> RED-dropped packets : 1124 0 pps <snip> RED-dropped bytes : 1124000 0 bps <snip>
On MPC2E NG and MPC3E NG CoS functionality by default organized on XQCHIP. Described behavior is system limitation of XQCHIP. To workaround this problem, it's recommended to adjust buffer-size, shaping-rate burst-size and delay-buffer-rate CoS parameters. Exact values of these parameters are depended on design requirements.