Aspects of a method and system for managing network resources in audio / video bridging enabled networks are provided. In this regard, network resources reserved via AVB may be allocated for administrative and / or control traffic. Additionally, administrative and / or control data may be assigned highest priority for routing in the network. In this regard, priority of traffic may be determined via one or more bits of a VLAN tag associated with the traffic. For each AVB stream registered in the network, there may be a corresponding portion of the reserved network resources allocated for administrative and / or control data. The portion of reserved network resources allocated for administrative and / or control data may be based on past, present, or expected network statistics. Portions of the reserved resources not allocated for administrative and / or control data may be utilized for communicating one or more multimedia streams. In this regard, the unallocated resources may be distributed amongst the one or more multimedia streams. Allocating reserved resources for administrative and / or control traffic may ensure reliable communication of the administrative and / or control traffic, by preventing one or more multimedia streams from monopolizing network resources.