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Warning

ECN marking mechanism requires the respective Tx queues to use shared buffers (use-shared-buffers=yes) and WRED (wred=yes).

The packet receives the CE mark if all conditions below are met:

  1. The packet is either IPv4 or IPv6.
  2. The ECN field value in IP header is either ECT(1) or ECT(0).
  3. Egress port's Tx Manager has ecn=yes.
  4. The assigned Tx Queue uses shared buffers (use-shared-buffers=yes).
  5. The assigned Tx Queue has WRED enabled (wred=yes).
  6. The Tx Queue detects congestion via WRED threshold.

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