Patent ID: 11929930
Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 2, further comprising:
receiving a third packet, using the packet switch unit, wherein the third packet is received on an ingress interface of the network element corresponding to the non-EQ interface;
determining whether the third packet is to be stored in the one of the plurality of internal queues or forwarded without storing; and
upon determining the third packet is to be stored,
determining a depth of the one of the plurality of internal queues in which the third packet is to be stored prior to forwarding the third packet to one of the plurality of egress interfaces determined based on information in the third packet; and
storing, based upon the determined depth, the third packet in one of an external queue or the one of the plurality of internal queues.