Effects of enabling egress frame-based accounting on network queue functionality

If frame overhead consideration is enabled, then queue scheduler accounts for the Ethernet frame overhead. The maximum egress bandwidth accounts for the Ethernet frame overhead (it accounts for the IFG (inter-frame gap) and the preamble). Typically, the IFG and preamble constitutes about 12 + 8 = 20 bytes. The overhead for Ethernet ports uses this value.

A configurable CLI command enables accounting of the frame overhead. This is a system wide parameter and affects the behavior of all egress queues (when frame-based-accounting is enabled on egress port (network ports or access-uplink ports, as applicable), the associated queues also account for frame overhead implicitly). When disabled, the egress-rate command does not account for the Ethernet frame overhead.