This option provides a different mode of operation for the fragmentation in the transmit direction of the FR SAP than in the default behavior of a FRF.12 end-to-end fragmentation. It allows for the interleaving of high-priority frames and fragments of low-priority frames.
When the interleave option is enabled, only frames of the FR SAP non expedited forwarding class queues are subject to fragmentation. The frames of the FR SAP expedited queues are interleaved, with no fragmentation header, among the fragmented frames. In effect, this provides a behavior like in MLPPP Link Fragment Interleaving (LFI). The receive direction of the FR SAP supports both modes of operation concurrently, for example, with and without fragment interleaving.