[127690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Clark)
Thu Jul 8 19:41:43 2010
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:41:31 -0400
From: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <A925AC5C659BD64FBA4E84EC349688730B433CC8@CEXMB4.nmes.lcl>
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Agree...when you rate limit verse shaping you can actually cause more
traffic because the packets need to be retransmitted to deal with those
that got dropped.
On 07/08/2010 06:43 PM, Murphy, Jay, DOH wrote:
> 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.
>
> ~Jay Murphy
> IP Network Specialist
> NM State Government
>
>
