Re: Control Inbound Internet Traffic.

What your concern can be addressed at the ISP site.

You can no stop any kind of traffice coming to your router external
interface (or inbound traffi)

What you can do is that you can coordinate with you service provider and
discuss with them and then they can put policing and other mehanism on the
interface connected with your router external interface.

Kind of Managed service as well we can say

HTH

2009/12/8 Amr Masoud <amr.eng_at_gmail.com>

> Dears,
>
> How we can control (Police or shape or reserve BW ) traffic coming from
> Internet to my network (download traffic). Lets say I need to shape CLASS-A
> to 1 Mbps and reserve BW for CLASS-B with 2 Mbps.
>
> First: For Policing if we policed the incoming traffic at external
> interface, then fine, traffic that is coming to internal side will be
> policed when it comes to internal side . But the whole traffc already came
> to the external interface and already consumed the download BW of the
> external interface !!
>
> Second: For BW reservation, it is a queuing mechanism. so it has to be
> applied outbound, so it will be applied to internal interface as outbound.
> So again the same problem, this traffic still not guaranteed at external
> interface :(
>
> I hope you got what I am trying to explain, and hope to hear from people
> who
> already faced this issue in life networks.
>
>
> Regards.
> Amr Mahmoud
>
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