QOS: police rate ???

Hello,

What for is "police rate" ? There is very little information about this
command. Even Cisco mentions it only twice in a 1100 page QOS configuration
guide 12.4:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/qos/configuration/guide/12_4t/qos_12_4t_book.pdf

According to this document:

CISCO-CLASS-BASED-QOS-MIB was extended to manage control plane QoS policies,
and the police rate command was introduced to support traffic policing on
the basis of packets per second for control plane traffic.

Taking into consideration that "police rate" is meant to manage control
plane, what it does when it is attached to physical interface (not
control-plane) ?

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Received on Tue Dec 21 2010 - 12:03:53 ART