The port-scheduler-policy command creates a port scheduler template which may be assigned to an egress port. Only one port scheduler policy is allowed per port. There is a ‟default” port-scheduler policy (which services the queues of the port in a Strict order) associated with each port. To change the behavior, users can associate the port with another port-scheduler policy. The policy contains mode commands to set the mode of scheduling (RR, Strict, WRR, WDRR) and queue commands to set the weight of the queue, when the mode is set to one of WRR and WDRR. In WRR/WDRR, a strict option treats that particular queue as a strict queue, this leads to a hybrid mode of scheduling (WRR+Strict, WDRR+Strict).