
Configuring Frame Relay Services
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Oversubscribing the Interface
The CIRs that you configure are based on an average peak rate for the VCs on the
network. If all VCs with traffic shaping try to send data simultaneously, they may
exceed the capacity of the interface. If you oversubscribe the interface, traffic
shaping will still enforce the CIR, but there may be additional latency for reserved
flows. VCs without traffic shaping will send data after traffic shaped VCs.
Queue Limits and Data Clipping
Bay Networks routers maintain buffers for each traffic shaped VC. Each buffer
can hold one frame that the router cannot send because of congestion. The router
divides the number of buffers on the interface. Some key facts specific to buffers
are:
• The default number of buffers is 200 per interface. To change the buffer
number, you can use the Technician Interface.
• The software divides the number of buffers on the interface by the number of
traffic-shaped VCs, giving each VC the same number of buffers. Therefore, if
you have 10 traffic-shaped VCs per interface, each VC has 20 buffers.
• If you enable protocol prioritization, the default number of buffers is 30 for
high priority traffic, 200 for normal, and 30 for low.
You can use the Technician Interface to increase the total number of buffers for the
interface, and you can also redistribute buffers among the VCs and among priority
queues.
The parameters that you customize at the interface level are:
• wfFrDlcmiShapingHiQueueLimit
• wfFrDlcmiShapingNormalQueueLimit
• wfFrDlcmiShapingLoQueueLimit
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