
Customizing PVCs
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Controlling Congestion for PVCs
Congestion occurs when a node receives more frames than it can process, or sends
more frames than the transmission line can transport. You can enable congestion
control on your network. When you enable congestion control, the router receives
congestion notification messages from the PVC experiencing congestion, and
drops all outbound traffic destined for that PVC until it no longer receives
congestion notifications.
When you enable congestion control, you can set the length of time during which
the router counts congestion notifications. You can also set the maximum number
of congestion notifications that the router can receive during this time period. If
the router receives this number of congestion notifications within the time period
you specify, it stops transmitting data. The router resumes transmission when it
stops receiving congestion notifications.
If you use traffic shaping with congestion control, you also need to decide which
congestion control method the router should use. For more information about
traffic shaping, see “Using Traffic Shaping With PVCs” on page 4-21
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If you enable congestion control, all PVCs on the interface use congestion control
and the values you specify for the congestion timer and congestion counter.
However, you can configure PVCs individually at the service level. In this case,
you can either disable congestion for an individual PVC, or select other
congestion control parameters for that PVC.
Configuring Congestion Control for an Interface
You can use either the BCC or Site Manager to control congestion for an interface.
Using the BCC
To configure congestion control for the interface you must first enable congestion
control. Then, you can optionally configure the congestion timer, congestion
counter, and congestion method.
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