Netopia 4000-Series manual Frame Relay Dlci configuration

WAN and System Configuration 2-11

ting defaults to 64000, but you may modify the capacity rate if this setting will not be applicable to you.

■The Default Bc (Bc also referred to as Committed Burst Size) represents the maximum amount of data that your Frame Relay service provider agrees to transfer from a given PVC (Permanent Virtual Circuit) or DLCI (Data Link Connection Identifier). This setting defaults to 64000, but you may change the capacity rate if necessary.

■The Default Be (Be also referred to as Excess Burst Size) represents the maximum amount of data that your Frame Relay service provider will attempt to deliver to a given PVC (Permanent Virtual Circuit) or DLCI (Data Link Connection Identifier). This setting defaults to 0, but you may change the capacity rate if necessary.

Note: Some Frame Relay service providers allow for over-subscription of the DLCIs, which occurs when the total number of CIRs for all PVCs exceeds the line rate setup.

3.Select Congestion Management Enabled and toggle to Yes or No depending on whether you use this selection. Press Return.

If Congestion Management is enabled, this option causes the Netopia Router to use in-bound FECNs (Forward Explicit Congestion Notification). This feature is designed to notify you that congestion avoidance procedures should be initiated where applicable for traffic in the same direction as the received frame. It indicates that the frame in question has encountered congested resources.

Note: The Congestion Management Enabled field will only appear if Standard or Buffered is selected as the option from the Tx Injection Management field.

4.Select Maximum Tx Frame Size and press Return. The default is automatically set to a value suitable for encapsulating a full Ethernet packet’s transmission load; however you can change the Maximum Frame Size to suit your network’s transmission load. Press Return.

You are now finished configuring the Frame Relay Configuration screen. Press the Escape key to return to the WAN Configuration screen. If you need to configure your DLCIs, go to the next section.

Frame Relay DLCI configuration

If you selected None as your LMI Type then you will need to manually configure your DLCIs.

A Frame Relay DLCI is a set of parameters that tells the Netopia Router how to initially connect to a remote destination.

The Netopia Router supports up to 16 different Frame Relay DLCI profiles.

Each Frame Relay DLCI configuration you set up allows the Netopia Router to connect your network to another network that uses IP over Frame Relay.