
Configuring Line Services
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Monitoring PPP Link Quality
To ensure that the router can successfully transfer data, PPP monitors the quality
of the point-to-point link with Link Quality Monitoring (LQM) and Link Quality
Report (LQR) packets. PPP supports LQM over standard synchronous interfaces
only. PPP does not support LQM over High-speed Serial Interfaces (HSSI).
BayStream software, however, does support LQM and LQR over HSSI interfaces.
When you enable link quality monitoring through the Link Quality Protocol, you
are turning on monitoring only for the local router. For link quality monitoring to
be operational, it only has to be enabled on one side of the link. If two routers are
configured for different link quality reporting periods, they negotiate to the lower
value, so that the LQR period will be the same on both sides of the link.
LQR packets contain counters of incoming and outgoing data packets for the
routers on each side of the link. Each time a router receives an LQR packet, PPP
uses that packet to calculate the outbound link quality (the percentage of packets
the router transmitted that its peer successfully receives) and the inbound link
quality (the percentage of packets that the peer transmitted that this router
successfully receives).
After five LQR reporting periods, PPP averages the inbound and outbound link
quality and compares these values against a user-specified threshold. This is a
rolling average. After the first five LQR reporting periods, PPP acquires the data
from the next period and drops the oldest data. Then it computes the link quality
average for that set of five LQR periods, and so on.
If either the inbound or outbound link quality average drops below the threshold,
PPP brings down the link. The driver software automatically brings the link back
up and renegotiates the connection. PPP monitors the link control packets flowing
over the connection and resumes network control protocol packet traffic when the
link quality improves.
Note: PPP uses LQM and LQR only if you set the Link Quality Protocol
parameter to LINKQR. The default is None.
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