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Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenny Sallee)
Thu Jul 8 19:35:58 2010

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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:35:24 -0700
From: Kenny Sallee <kenny.sallee@gmail.com>
To: "Murphy, Jay, DOH" <Jay.Murphy@state.nm.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

I think if you try to traffic-shape 80Mbps on that platform you'll have
problems.  We have a 7200 with NPE-G1 (rate limited at 80Mbps) and it kille=
d
the CPU when the threshold was hit.  I imagine that traffic-shaping would d=
o
the same to CPU and memory.  I'd lab it first.

Kenny

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Murphy, Jay, DOH <Jay.Murphy@state.nm.us>wr=
ote:

> traffic-shape rate 75000000 90000000 90000000 1000 for example. Your rate
> limit will police your traffic and drop it all.
>
> Traffic shaping produces a queue, and does not completely junk a packet. =
It
> becomes q'd, and produces a smoother output.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antonio Querubin [mailto:tony@lava.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 4:26 PM
> To: Alan Bryant
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router
>
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Alan Bryant wrote:
>
> > The problem we have now is that we are only paying for 80 MB/s of the
> > OC-3, and the ISP is leaving the capping of it up to us. I have
>
> BTW, rate-limiting of traffic that the ISP router sends to your router is
> best done at the ISP router.
>
> Antonio Querubin
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