CCIE Practical Studies: Security (CCIE Self-Study)

Creating a Broadcast Queue for an Interface

In a very large Frame Relay network, you can experience performance issues when you have many DLCIs terminating to a single FRAD that must replicate routing updates and service advertising updates out each DLCI. To avoid this performance issue, you have the option of creating a special broadcast queue for an interface. This broadcast queue is managed independently of the normal interface queue, has its own buffers, and has a configurable size and service rate.

You define a maximum transmission rate, or throughput limit, that is measured in both bytes per second and packets per second. The queue is serviced to ensure that no more than this maximum is provided. The broadcast queue is given priority when ...