Re: QoS interpretation

so this should be shape avg or shape peak ?

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From: "Nick" <ccieaz_at_googlemail.com>
To: "Gabriel" <mail.to.gabriel_at_gmail.com>
Cc: "Cisco certification" <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: QoS interpretation

> Thank you for you help. I see why shaping is used in this question now. :)
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> Nick
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> 2009/4/15 Gabriel <mail.to.gabriel_at_gmail.com>
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>> You police as the provider, you shape as the customer. In these
>> examples, you are the customer and the owner of BBn is the provider,
>> so he is policing and you should shape.
>>
>> If you think about it, it makes sense this way: if you're the
>> provider, you don't care what happens to the customer's excess
>> traffic: you promised the customer X mbps and that's all he gets. If
>> you're the customer with a policed pipe, you want to do the best you
>> can to make good use of that X mbps for your most important traffic,
>> so you shape to fit the rate that's being policed by the provider.
>>
>> -Gabriel
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Nick <ccieaz_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I still have trouble sometimes with QoS question interpretation.
>> >
>> > Take this example from IE lab 18
>> >
>> > ".... BB2 will only allow R5 to send traffic across this link at a
>> maximum
>> > of 2.5mpbs. BB3 will only allow R5 to send traffic into its network at
>> > a
>> > maximum rate of 3mpbs"
>> >
>> > How should I interpret this?
>> >
>> > I think that you could do this with shaping, policing or bandwidth
>> > statement. But which is best and why?
>> >
>> > Any tips would be great.
>> >
>> > (SG uses shaping)
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Nick
>> >
>> >
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