COMNET III

Chapter 9. Transport and Answer Commands
9.11 Discard Eligible Packets Report
TRANSPORT + ANSWER COMMANDS: DE PACKETS
REPLICATION 1 FROM 0.0 TO 300.0 SECONDS
ORIGIN / COMMAND NAME: DE 0 PACKETS DE 1 PACKETS CONGEST
DESTINATION LIST CREATED DROPPED CREATED DROPPED PACKETS
______________________ _________ _________ _________ _________ ________
Application Workstation / cmd DataDB Request:
Application Server 68 0 0 0 0
Application Server / cmd Request Response:
ECHO 0 0 0 0 0
Application Workstat 160 0 0 0 0
The Discard Eligible Packets Report provides information for transport and answer
commands about the flags set on the packet: the DE (discard eligibility) flag from the
protocol’s traffic policing algorithm, and the congestion flags set by the buffers when they
are set up for FECN or BECN.
Discard Eligible 0 Packets Created and Dropped
The number of created and dropped packets that were flagged with
a discard eligibility of 0.
Discard Eligible 1 Packets Created and Dropped
Congestion Packets
The number of created and dropped packets flagged with a discard
eligibility of 1.
The number of packets that had a congestion flag set by buffers.
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