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Managing Cable Modems on the Hybrid
Fiber-Coaxial Network
After you have completed upstream and downstream configuration in
Chapter 3, “Configuring Cable
Interface Features for the Cisco uBR10012 Router,”
you have additional options to manage how your
CMs operate in the hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network. You can set the following CM functions:
Section
Purpose
“Activating CM Authentication”
section on page 4-4
Configures the Cisco uBR10000 series CMTS to require all CMs
to return a known text string to register with the CMTS and gain
access to the network.
“Activating CM Authentication”
section on page 4-2
Configures the Cisco uBR10000 series CMTS to require all CMs
to return a known text string to register with the CMTS and gain
access to the network.
“Activating CM Insertion Interval”
section on page 4-3
Limits the amount of time that a CM requests a channel for the
first time from the Cisco uBR10012 router. (A CM's initial
channel request is known as
insertion
.)
“Activating CM Upstream Address
Verification” section on page 4-5
Ensures that only CMs that have received DHCP leases through
the Cisco uBR10000 series CMTS can access the HFC network.
“Clearing CM Counters” section
on page 4-6
Clears the counters for the CMs in the station maintenance list.
“Clearing CM Reset” section on
page 4-6
Removes one or more CMs from the station maintenance list and
resets the cable modem (or all CMs) on the network.
“Configuring CM Registration
Timeout” section on page 4-7
Specifies the registration timeout interval for CMs connected to
the Cisco uBR10012 router.
“Configuring Dynamic Contention
Algorithms (Cable Insertion
Interval, Range, and Data
Backoff)” section on page 4-7
Configures the algorithms that control the capacity of the
contention subchannel and how efficiently a given contention
subchannel capacity is used.
“Configuring the Dynamic Map
Advance Algorithm” section on
page 4-8
Enhances the upstream throughput from a CM connected to the
Cisco uBR10000 series CMTS. The system employs a new
algorithm that automatically tunes the lookahead time in MAC
allocation and management messages (MAPs), based on several
input parameters for the corresponding upstream channel.