/ECS_MAX_DELAY=n /NOECS_MAX_DELAY Sets a management-specified lower bound on the maximum delay (in microseconds) an ECS member channel can have. The value for n can be any value between 0 and 3000000. /NOECS_MAX_DELAY disables a prior management delay setting. You can use this command to override the PEdriver automatically calculated delay thresholds to ensure that all channels with delays less than the value supplied for n are included in the VC's ECS. The command operates as follows: Whenever at least one tight peer channel has a delay of less than the management-supplied value, all tight peer channels with delays less than the management- supplied value are automatically included in the ECS. When all tight peer channels have delays equal to or greater than the management setting, the ECS membership delay thresholds are automatically calculated and used. The /NOECS_MAX_DELAY qualifier disables management control by setting the management delay value to zero. You must determine an appropriate value for your configuration by experimentation. An initial value of 2000 (2 ms) to 5000 (5 ms) is suggested. CAUTION By overriding the automatic delay calculations, you can include a channel in the ECS whose average delay is consistently greater than 1.5 to 2 times the average delay of the fastest channels. When this occurs, the overall VC throughput becomes the speed of the slowest ECS member channel. An extreme example is when the management delay permits a 10 Mb/s Ethernet channel to be included with multiple 1 Gb/s channels. The resultant VC throughput drops to 10 Mb/s. Note that the SET VC/ECS_MAX_DELAY setting is not valid beyond the life of the system. Therefore, you might want to include SET VC/ECS_MAX_DELAY commands in your startup file or reissue these commands at the next boot.