Performance Considerations; Atm Command List; Table 21-15 Atm Connection Commands - Cisco BPX-BXM-155-8DX Installation And Configuration Manual

ATM Command List

In releases previous to Release 9.1.07, when connections are derouted, the CPE does not receive Abit
notifications. In Release 9.1.07 on BPX, the Send Abit on Deroute feature was developed, which
allowed the Abit = 0 to be sent immediately when a connection is derouted. (This was specified by the
cnfnodeparm
To further enhance the Send Abit on Deroute feature in Release 9.1.07, the Early Abit Notification on
ILMI/LMI Using Configurable Timer feature was implemented in Release 9.2 to allow the network
administrator to configure the node as to when Abit = 0 is sent out if a connection is derouted and not
rerouted quickly. This feature allows you to specify when Abit notifications will be sent at Frame Relay
and ATM ports, and at feeder trunks in a tiered network architecture that supports the ILMI/LMI
interface. In a tiered network, the Abit information is used by the feeder nodes such as MGX 8220
(AXIS) which then relays the Abit information to the CPE.

Performance Considerations

The status update messages are throttled at the rate of one message per second. Each message can be
used to specify the conditioning information on a maximum of 47 connections. It may take on the
order of minutes for the ILMI/LMI manager to process the Abit status when there is a large number of
connections.
There are two factors in performance:
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Specifically, on the BPX, if the BXM runs LMI/ILMI, the BCC has to send Abit update to the card.
These messages will be throttled. When this happens, the estimated time to reroute all 12K connections
increases no more than 5 percent.
For the IGX, enabling the Sending Abit Notification using Configurable Timer feature may impact
performance if many connections end at Frame Relay cards. This is due to the restricted format of
interface between NPM and Frame Relay cards.
ATM Command List

Table 21-15 ATM Connection Commands

Mnemonic
addcon
clrchstats
cnfabrparm
cnfatmcls
cnfcdparm
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parameter Send Abit immediately parameter.)
System performance
System performance is affected by the value of the time interval. In a network where connections
are normally derouted and rerouted quickly before the bucket timer expires, the performance
impact is very small. Only when the timer expires, then looping through all LCONs and sending
update messages will take up some CPU time which is estimated to be smaller than 1 percent.
Reroute time
Reroute time is not affected if LMI/ILMI is running on the controller card. When the protocol is
implemented on the line cards and feeder trunk cards, some additional Abit status communication
between them and controller card may delay the reroute process.
Description
Add connection
Clear channel statistics
Configure ABR parameters (applies to BXM)
Configure ATM class
Configure channel statistic level on UXM/BXM
cards
Chapter 21 Configuring ATM Connections
Release 9.3.0, Part Number 78-10674-01 Rev. D0, July 2001