Re: QOS- traffic shaping

From: Bob Sinclair (bsinclair@netmasterclass.net)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 12:43:57 GMT-3


I think you want to shape if you are concerned that someone downstream will
police. It sounds like you are trying to limit the amount of bandwidth a
customer application can consume on your network, in which case policing
would be simpler and most approprate (IMHO).

HTH,

Bob Sinclair
CCIE #10427, CISSP, MCSE
www.netmasterclass.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "SHARMA,MOHIT (HP-Germany,ex1)" <mohit.sharma@hp.com>
To: "'Group Study'" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:35 AM
Subject: QOS- traffic shaping

> HI All,
>
> I have a requirement where I need to limit a customers SAN traffic to 20
MB
> over a 45 MB link. The traffic from this class should not exceed 20 MB.
>
> I have the following -
>
> class-map match-any SAN
> description DRP SAN Traffic
> match ip dscp af13
>
> policy-map QOS-core-voip-SAN-Pri
> class SAN
> bandwidth 20000
> shape average 20000000 3750000 7500000
> queue-limit 1000
> random-detect dscp-based
> random-detect dscp 14 500 1000 15
>
> Will this do the trick??
> I am not sure, if I should use shaping here or policing.
>
> 1.>Also my understanding is that with the above configuration 20 MB will
> always be reserved for the SAN class during congestion and if there is no
> SAN traffic then it will be allocated to other classes.
> 2.> The shaping will make sure that the traffic does not exceed the 20 MB
> limit.
>
> AM I right here?? IS there any better way to do the same??
>
> Thanx as always for your kind inputs.
>
> Smiles,
>
> Mohit.
>
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