Re: [nsp] Resetting IP Precedence

From: Eric Osborne (eosborne@cisco.com)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 14:17:16 EDT


On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:09:34PM -0400, Martin Picard wrote:
>
> With PBR I can set the IP precedence of "incoming" traffic.
> With CAR I can set the IP precedence of "incoming" and "outgoing"
> I need to set the precedence on "outgoing", looks like I have to use CAR
> !!

well, you could use PBR to match on the outgoing interface and set
precedence, which would be effectively the same.

> The only way I know with CAR is by using the rate-limit statement.
> But I too, think this would be pretty inefficient regardless of the
> datarates
> specified because of the bucket algo.

Whatever overhead CAR has is pretty independent of the datarate.

> Is there a special datarate that would disable the Token bucket
algo ?

Nope.

> Is there any other way with or without CAR to set the "outgoing"
> precedence ?
>

PBR to match on outgoing interface, but I suspect tx CAR will be less
CPU cycles.

eric



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