[16399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Shapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Porter)
Fri Apr 24 12:34:34 1998
To: "Natambu Obleton" <no@frontier.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:51:16 MDT."
<072601bd6f12$b4f15050$3b8d2dc7@hermosa.frontier.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:24:29 -0500
From: Jeremy Porter <jerry@freeside.fc.net>
Sure we do it all the time. There are CPU limitations on the
amount of total traffic that can be pushed through a router that
is traffic shaping. I'm assuming because all the shaped traffic is
process switched. Also you will probably want to dedicate a router
to it.
Typically these are only useful near the customer connection, as
you can really only shape outbound packets. (unless you
traffic shape at your boarders, and have a "large" network, you've
already paid for the traffic by the time you discard it.)
In message <072601bd6f12$b4f15050$3b8d2dc7@hermosa.frontier.net>, "Natambu Oble
ton" writes:
>Has anyone here successfully implement the traffic shaping option on a Cisco
>router?
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