
Frame Relay Overview
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The sum of the B
c
and the B
e
is the maximum amount of traffic that can travel
across the network per T
c
when there is no congestion. If you set the B
e
to a value
greater than zero, the router can send traffic exceeding the CIR. To enforce the
CIR, that is, to limit traffic that the router can send to the amount of the CIR, set
the B
e
to 0.
If you enable congestion control and set the congestion method to throttle, the
virtual circuit sends only B
c
bits of data over the time interval T
c
when congestion
occurs, even if you have configured the B
e
to a value greater than 0. It queues the
excess data until congestion abates. If you set the congestion method to
throttle-then-shutdown, the virtual circuit first queues traffic when congestion
occurs, and then terminates the virtual circuit if throttling does not alleviate
congestion.
Quality of Service
Quality of Service (QoS) is the second major component of Bay Networks traffic
shaping. It uses protocol prioritization with traffic shaping. You configure a
prioritization filter on the default service record for the entire frame relay
interface, and CIR enforcement per virtual circuit (VC). QoS operates over
Synchronous, HSSI, T1, E1, and ISDN lines, for backup, demand, and for leased
lines. Although the HSSI driver does not support protocol prioritization, VCs on
an HSSI interface do.
Using protocol prioritization with traffic shaping creates two levels of queues. For
traffic shaping the queues are high/normal/low at the VC level. For protocol
prioritization they are interrupt/shaping/high/normal/low at the driver level.
Figure 2-10
illustrates this concept.
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