Re: Policing and dropping packets

Let me be a little bit more precise -- The BE bucket is just a bunch of
bytes. So, when you configure the BE to be 8000 bytes you are literally
defining the size of that bucket. Now, as you go along you may see anywhere
from 0 - 8000 bytes in the bucket, but the SIZE of the bucket never
changes. You can NEVER have more than 8000 bytes in the bucket, as overflow
of the BE is just spilled out and lost

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Joe Astorino <joeastorino1982_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Pretty close. The BE bucket won't ever exceed 64,000 bits though because
> you defined it to be a size of 64,000 bits -- no more, no less. That
> doesn't change. If a packet comes in, and the BC bucket is EMPTY (no tokens
> left -- you've used them all) and the BE bucket is EMPTY (no tokens left
> because you used them all) it will drop the packet
>
>
> --
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