RE: rate-limit vs. police

From: dusth@comcast.net
Date: Sat Oct 08 2005 - 15:05:09 GMT-3


Hi Tim, Yeah...I think the same as the way you are so if there is no requirement for which method to use, just use whichever comfort with, or if there is a need for nested, mqc with police is prefered then.
Dustin

-------------- Original message --------------

> Dustin,
>
> It used to be that you needed to use rate-limit vs MQC is you needed to
> police a subset of traffic to a portion of the overall rate. For example,
> if you needed to police all traffic to 10 mb but within that 10 mb, FTP was
> to be limiting to just 2 mb of the 10 mb.
>
> Now, however, you can do the same thing within MQC. So, the only thing I
> can think of that would require using the rate-limit command is if you had
> to use just 1 command to rate-limit traffic that either ip prec x or ip prec
> y, etc. But, it might be possible to do that with MQC also given how often
> they're expanding the capability of MQC.
>
> See the command reference for more detail on rate-limit.
>
> HTH, Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> dusth@comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 12:58 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: rate-limit vs. police
>
> Hi group,
> Can some one with good knowledge about the differences b/t these two method
> and shed me some light? I'm confused when to use rate-limit and when to use
> police. Basically, I read the cco docs look like they all both offer same
> functions to me
> Thanks, Dustin
>
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