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Re: (ASCEND) Can a p130 handle a full t1?



>	The three PVCs you describe above will work fine. You five the
>P130 the DLCIs. The Pipeline knows nothing about bandwidth, however, so
>you have to rely on the Frame switch to limit bandwidth, which works fine
>until you have, for instance, a 384k connection into the Frame Switch to
>support these three PVCs and the jerk with 64k runs a warez server. Then
>people requesting data over it will flood your T1 as the bandwidth
>limiting is going to take place at the Frame Switch, not the Pipeline.
>Thus I wouldn't want to do this for someone who is going to be serving
>lots of data... if they are going to be responsible and/or just pull in
>data that's cool. On the Cisco you can naturally do a sub interface and a
>bandwidth command, but no per PVC bandwidth restrictions.

Just a note...this is not true.

On Cisco equipment using 11.2 Frame Relay Traffic Shaping, you can enforce per-PVC bandwidth restrictions at the router/access server.

Wade

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