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What happens?  Generally packets start to be lost.  For example, you send 100 Mbps to one FE interface and perhaps 40 Mbps then exits another FE interface.  As most network applications don't well tolerate a 60% packet loss rate, effectively the applications may behave as if there was 100% packet loss.