The NumForwardPackets property indicates the number of IP packet headers allocated for the router packet queue. When all ...

The NumForwardPackets property indicates the number of IP packet headers allocated for the router packet queue. When all headers are in use, the router will begin to discard packets from the queue at random. This value should be at least as large as the ForwardBufferMemory value divided by the maximum IP data size of the networks connected to the router. It should be no larger than the ForwardBufferMemory value divided by 256, since at least 256 bytes of forward buffer memory are used for each packet. The optimal number of forward packets for a given ForwardBufferMemory size depends on the type of traffic carried on the network. It will lie somewhere between these two values. If the router is not enabled, this parameter is ignored and no headers are allocated. Default: 50, Valid Range: 1 - 0xFFFFFFFE.