From: Leigh Harrison (ccileigh@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 04 2005 - 13:10:57 GMT-3
To clarify,
I do get it a bit.
My understanding is that:-
Burst means "in chunks of"
i.e
rate-limit 4000000 500000 600000 conform transmit exceed drop
Does this mean "you can send you data up to 4 meg a second in chunks of
up to 500k, but no more than 600k"
If so - what's the point of the 600k ?!
LH
Leigh Harrison wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm having a hard time getting my head around some of the bits of
> QoS. No matter how much I read about it - it doesn't seem to sink in.
>
> I had a requirement to set the bandwidth on an incoming interface to 4
> meg.
>
> No problem I thought and did it thusly:-
>
> policy-map traffic_in
> class class-default
> police 4000000
>
> int f0/0
> service policy input traffic_in
>
> But then I thought to myself - hang on, what if in the lab I couldn't
> use a policy map, what else could I do? Ah-ha, I thought,
> Rate-Limiting. Then it hit me - I've no idea why there are so many
> variables for rate limiting!! To be honest - I think I'm going mad.
> I got quite angry with my telnet session when it wanted me to specify
> normal burst size and extended burst size.
>
> Could someone put this into simple(ton) terms for me?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> LH
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