the router is telling you that frames leaving this interface have
encountered congestion, the notification packet is sent back to the
originating router through BECN. Incoming congestion would have been
displayed with FECN.
""Diegmueller, Jason (I.T. Dept)"" <diegmuej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D539D751C9C1D211958800A0C9EAFC1C01A20C5D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Could someone give me a quick overview of BECN and FECN in a
> Frame Relay network?
>
> If I do a "show frame-relay pvc 361" command on a router,
> and I see that the "in BECN pkts" (and ONLY that counter,
> all the others (out BECN, in/out FECN) are at 0) counter
> is somewhat high, what is this telling me? That frames
> this router received encountered congestion? Or that there
> was congestion on frames leaving this router torwards it's
> destination and the Frame Relay network is simply trying
> to let me know of this situation?
>
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