Re: QOS: police rate ???

 From the description, the packet rate is at stake, not the bit rate.
So sounds like if it works, it should set a quota on pps.

Test it! (it won't byte :)
-Carlos

Jack Router wrote:
> Yes, but what happens when police rate is applied on physical interface ? Is
> it the same as police cir ?
>
> In my lab:
> R1----(F0/0)R2(F0/1)----R3
>
> On R2 there are two policy-maps to limit icmp to 1%:
>
> policy-map TEST0
> class TEST0
> police cir percent 1
> conform-action transmit
> exceed-action drop
>
> policy-map TEST1
> class TEST1
> police rate percent 1
> conform-action transmit
> exceed-action drop
>
> TEST0 is applied on input of F0/0
> TEST1 is applied on input of F0/1
>
> Now, when I ping R3 from R1 and R1 from R3 results are excactly the same.
> Are then "police cir percent" and "police rate percent" THE SAME ? My test
> tells me that they behave the same way, is there a difference in the way
> they work inside the router or even not that ?
>
>
> On 21 December 2010 14:28, Deepak Ahuja <deeps.ccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Its a clear reference to COPP not General Policing
>>
>> HTH
>> Deepak
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Jack Router <pan.router_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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>> CCIE#19545(R&S/SP)
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