1. A system for transferring data, comprising: an egress node including an egress port; an ingress node configured to receive a data segment of a data packet destined for the egress port, the data packet associated with a packet priority level; where the ingress node is configured to receive an egress statement vector from the egress node, the egress statement vector indicates whether the egress port is or is not flow controlled for data associated with the packet priority level; and where the ingress node is configured to determine whether the egress port is available to receive the data segment from the ingress node before other data segments of the data packet are received at the ingress node based on the egress statement vector and based on a comparison of the packet priority level with an egress entry of the egress statement vector corresponding to the packet priority level.