
Configuring Dial Services
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Protocol Prioritization
When you configure a router, you can prioritize the different types of traffic sent
across a line. This process is called protocol prioritization. When you configure
leased bandwidth circuits, the router automatically enables protocol prioritization.
Prioritizing traffic is important for your time-sensitive applications.
For example, a user at router A participating in a Telnet session with router B
requires a more immediate response than a user at router A performing a file
transfer with router B.
Although protocol prioritization is set automatically, you still need to configure
priorities and filters. For more information about protocol prioritization, see
Configuring Traffic Filters and Protocol Prioritization.
Defining the Role of the Router in the Network
Leased bandwidth circuits are point-to-point connections. For each circuit, you
must designate a router at one end of the connection as the congestion monitor.
The congestion monitor checks the congestion of the lines in a multilink bundle. If
this router discovers congestion, it activates secondary lines. The router at the
other end of the connection, the non-monitor router, does not have the authority to
activate a secondary line. Do not set the Bandwidth Mode parameter to the same
value for both routers. This will prevent the routers from activating a second line
simultaneously.
You define the role of the router using the Bandwidth Mode parameter, which is
part of the bandwidth circuit configuration (see “Customizing
Bandwidth-on-Demand Service” on page 14-2).
Balancing Traffic Between Lines in a Multilink Bundle
With multilink enabled for bandwidth-on-demand service, the router divides the
outbound data traffic among all links in the bundle. The external clock speed of
each line determines how much of the total traffic each link receives. On the
receiving end, multilink resequences packets arriving on different links using the
sequence number from the multilink header.
For more information about traffic distribution, see Configuring PPP Services.
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