Re: QOS - "police cir" vs "police rate"

"police cir" is configuring your two-rate policer. With this you can
police two different things at the same time. The CIR and the PIR
"police rate" is used for control-plane policing.

Please see the 12.4T QoS command reference guide.

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Jack Router <pan.router_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Experts,
>
> What is the difference between "police cir" and "police rate" ?
> Both policy-maps below are supposed to:
> Up to 30%: transmit.
> Exceeding traffic up to 40%: mark dscp 2
> Above 40%: drop
>
> For me the look the same:
>
> policy-map CIR
> class WWW
> police cir percent 30 pir percent 40
> conform-action transmit
> exceed-action set-dscp-transmit 2
> violate-action drop
>
> policy-map RATE
> class WWW
> police rate percent 30 peak-rate percent 40
> conform-action transmit
> exceed-action set-dscp-transmit 2
> violate-action drop
>
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