Re: Does peering at an ATM MAE require a router that does ABR?

In the past, the MAE ATM switches ran ABR where you specified the MCR and traffic was policed at a PCR of 2xMCR, although almost no one at the MAEs actually used ABR on their connections. Almost everyone used VBR-nrt and many did not even realize that the use of ABR could have been beneficial. With "best effort" PVCs, this really becomes moot although these are still technically ABR. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634