Re: Counting Send DE Frames for Frame Relay MIB

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

At 2:08 PM 8/22/95, [e-mail] wrote:
>I don't agree that the switch is very likely to discard the traffic.  Certainly
>there's a likelihood, and, if the switch is implemented correctly, a greater
>likelihood than for non-DE traffic but there are other factors involved.  The
>switch should discard the DE traffic if it is congested,

A correctly implemented switch has three traffic windows for each DTE:

        traffic within Bc
        traffic within Bc+Be and not within Bc
        Other traffic

traffic is within Bc if the switch receives it from the DTE with DE=0 and
with certain timing characteristics, and leaves DE=0.

traffic is not within Bc and is within Be if DE=0 and Bc is exhausted and
Be is not, or if DE=1 and Be is not exhausted.

traffic is outside Bc+Be if DE=0 but both Bc and Be are exhausted, or if
DE=1 and Be is exhausted. Such traffic drops like a stone.

Be generally has one of two values:
        the size of one, maybe two, frames (8K bits is common)
or      infinite

If Be is infinite, your comments are reasonably accurate; DE is only of
interest when an intermediate switch is forced to discard traffic. If Be ==
8K bits, the traffic is discarded en mass at the ingress point. I guess the
argument depends on whose network you are using your equipment over.

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