Re: Policing (CAR) question

I agree with your solution Donald. It seems like somebody mixed up
Kilobits and Kilobytes since 50,000 bits (50Kb) divided by 8 gives you
6250 bytes. This has always been one of my pet peeves... people even
in this industry tend to like to say KB when they mean Kb

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Donald Virgil <d.virgil88_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> In a policing scenario if you saw *"should not occupy more than 250Kbps of
> a link and burst should not exceed 50KB"* how would you read that question?
>
> I read it as: *250 Kilo-BITS* per second for average rate and *50
> Kilo-BYTES *as the burst value. The command I use would be:
>
> *rate-limit input 250000 50000 con tran exc drop*
> **
>
> Does this seem right? The lab explanation shows 6250 as the burst value for
> the command.
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