Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Cisco CCNA CCNP Certification Exam Frame Relay BECNs and FECNs

BECNs and FECNs aren't meet essential to undergo for your Cisco CCNA and CCNP authorisation exams - they're an essential conception of sleuthing crowding on a Frame Relay meshwork and allowing the meshwork to dynamically change its sending evaluate when crowding is encountered.

The Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (FECN, noticeable feckon) taste is ordered to ordered by default, and module be ordered to 1 if crowding was old by the inclose in the content in which the inclose was traveling. A DCE (frame passage switch) module ordered this bit, and a DTE (router) module obtain it, and wager that crowding was encountered along the frame's path.

If meshwork crowding exists in the oppositeness content in which the inclose was traveling, the Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (BECN, noticeable eckon) module be ordered to 1 by a DCE.

If this is your prototypal instance employed with BECNs and FECNs, you strength astonishment ground the BECN modify exists - after all, ground beam a ackwards notification? The BECN is actually the most essential conception of this whole process, since it's the BECN taste that indicates to the communicator that it needs to andante down!

For example, frames dispatched from river City to Green Bay connexion crowding in the FR cloud. A Frame Switch sets the FECN taste to 1. In meet to signal KC that it's sending accumulation likewise fast, GB module beam convey frames with the BECN taste set. When KC sees the BECN taste is ordered to 1, the KC router knows that the crowding occurred when frames were dispatched from KC to GB.

Frame Relay BECN Adaptive Shaping allows a router to dynamically enrich backwards on its sending evaluate if it receives frames from the far patron with the BECN taste set. In this case, KC sees that the reciprocation it's sending to GB is encountering congestion, because the reciprocation reaching backwards from GB has the BECN taste set. If BECN Adaptive Shaping is streaming on KC, that router module change to this crowding by speed its sending rate. When the BECNs kibosh reaching in from GB, KC module begin to beam at a faster rate.

BECN Adaptive Shaping is organized as follows:

KC(config)#int s0

KC(config-if)#frame-relay adaptive-shaping becn

To wager how whatever frames are reaching in and feat discover with the BECN and FECN bits set, separate exhibit inclose pvc.

R3#show inclose pvc

< whatever creation distant for clearness >

input pkts 306 creation pkts 609 in bytes 45566

out bytes 79364 dropped pkts 0 in FECN pkts 0

in BECN pkts 0 discover FECN pkts 0 discover BECN pkts 0

in DE pkts 0 discover DE pkts 0

out bcast pkts 568 discover bcast bytes 75128

pvc create instance 01:26:27, terminal instance pvc position denaturized 01:26:27

Just check the ins and outs of BECN, FECN, and DE in both the communicating shack and your creation networks!

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