Re: QoS Shape Vs Police

From: Ahmed Mustafa (ahmed.mustafa@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 20:32:02 GMT-3


Sorry for the wrong, but yes, the shaping takes place when there is a
congestion. If there is no congestion then your output queue is empty, and
there is no reason to delay packets if router is free to transmit packets.
When congestion occurs, your output queue starts holding the packets depends
upon how much space you reserved for shapping.

HTH
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Tom Rogers
  To: Ahmed Mustafa
  Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
  Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 3:40 PM
  Subject: Re: QoS Shape Vs Police

  Ahmed,
  Thank you for your explanation. My confision is still not clear.
  I understand that in shape the graph is like a plateau ie packets re held as
long long as they can and transmitted at a certain threshold say 96kbps in
this book example.

  What I want to know is, is this only during the CONGESTION ?
  Or no matter what, whether congestion or not... like in policing.

  Is this shape independendent of congestion ?

  Thanx in advance

  Tom

  Ahmed Mustafa <ahmed.mustafa@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
    Tom,

    The major difference between policing and shaping is when you do
policing,
    no matter if your link is 10MB, 100MB, 1GB, once you set the limit, and
    traffic beyond that limit will be dropped or you set parameters if you
don't
    want the traffic to get dropped. In shapping, your intention is not to
drop
    the packet, but to delay the packet so the packet doesn't get dropped

    Shapping is advantageous where your low end traffic will not get dropped,
    and it will arrive to the destination with some latency. Shapping is
never
    meant to be for delay sensitive traffic such as voice and video.

    The best example would be

    Your router is connected to ISP. The Clock rate of your line is 1536, but
    the CIR you are paying for is 128KB. ISP knows that the guranteed CIR is
    128KB, but the router at your end could easily send traffic above 128KB.
    The ISP router can then start policing traffic coming from your end at
128KB
    at the ingress point, so no matter how fast your access rate the traffic
    above 128 will get dropped.

    So now at your end you could configure some shapping at the egress point
    where you can shape your data traffic at certain rate, and prioritized
your
    low latency traffic at certain rate.

    HTH,

    Ahmed
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Tom Rogers"
    To:
    Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 7:55 AM
    Subject: QoS Shape Vs Police

> Hello Every one,
>
> Can some explain me the difference beween shape and police.
> I did the research and could not find an answer.
>
> When I look at the DQoS book ISBN#1-58720-058-9
> Page 364 Example 5-5
> It says the FR provider wants to police the VCs at 96kbps and we re to
    adjust our FR interfaces accordingly.
>
> I was under the impression police cir command should do it.
> But the solution has shape average.
>
> My confusion is, I thought shape average kicks in when there is a
    congestion and would plateau the graph and policing no matter what we
limit
    or restrict traffic even if there is no congestion and would tail drop
the
    graph.
>
> Can some one tell me the when to use police and when use shape?
>
> I think I am lacking some concept here
>
>
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