Monitoring MP

 

 

v The bandwidth utilization across all links in the MP bundle is less than

 

the drop percentage of the total available bandwidth for the MP bundle

 

for the number of links minus one.

 

Bandwidth can be polled only when BAP is in the ready state. The

information listed from the previous poll will give you an idea of the

bandwidth utilization across the MP bundle.

These two sets of information are displayed when a drop can be initiated:

v Bandwidth utilization across the entire bundle

v Bandwidth utilization across number of links minus one

To prevent thrashing, the second set of information is used when

determining whether to drop a link.

 

Example:

 

PPP 11>list control bod

 

 

 

 

BOD :

Disabled

BAP :

Disabled

Bandwidth test interval (sec):

15

Add bandwidth percentage:

90

Drop percentage (links-1):

70

Max # active links in MP bundle:

2

Time since last Bandwidth check (sec):

19

Currently:

 

 

# active links in MP bundle:

0

 

Total MP bandwidth (Bytes/sec):

0

Last Bandwidth Check:

 

 

# active links in MP bundle:

0

 

Avg Inbound bandwidth util (%):

0

 

Avg Outbound bandwidth util (%):

0

 

control mp

 

 

The list control mp command lists the current state of this MP circuit

 

including the number of active links and bandwidth, the con®gured

 

maximum number of links, and statistics for number of dropped packets.

 

Dropped MP packets are classi®ed into four categories:

 

M

The packet is dropped because a sequence number has not been

 

 

received and it is less than the minimum sequence number across

 

 

all links' last received sequence number.

 

Timeout

 

 

 

The packet is dropped because a sequence number has not been

 

 

received during a timeout period.

 

Q depth

 

 

 

The packet is dropped because the maximum queue depth was

 

 

exceeded.

 

 

Seq order

 

 

 

The packet is dropped because the sequence number received was

 

 

not expected. This occurs when MP receives delayed packet that it

 

 

has already declared lost.

 

 

If a packet is dropped at the network layer, it can be either an M, Timeout,

 

or Q depth packet. These counters are incremented appropriately when a

 

packet is dropped.

 

PPP 11> list control mp

 

Current # active links in MP bundle:

0

Max # active links in MP bundle:

2

Total MP bandwidth (Bytes/sec):

0

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