[c-nsp] rate limiting newbie question

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Fredrik.Jacobsson at enskilda.se <> wrote on Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:04
PM:

> Hi!
> 
> I (customer) have a ip-vpn service provided dropping off an ethernet
> interface.
> The service is for 8 Mbit/s.
> 
> Obviously I want to send my packets in a controlled behaviour and do
> queuing myself to prioritize some packets in front of other so no
> congestion 
> occurs at the service provider routers.
> 
> Today I have this on my old link, a serial interface: (on a
> 2800-router 
> running 12.4)
> 
> policy-map mypolicy
>  class voip
>   pri 72
>  class business-critical
>   band 1024
>  class class-default
>   fair-queue
> 
> Now I also need to make sure that the maximum bandwidth for entire
> policy doesn't exceed 8192 kbps.
> Do I really need to set a shape/police for each class? I don't want
> to limit a class...but the entire interface speed.

policy-map parent
 shape average 8192000
 service-policy mypolicy
!
int fastethernet0
 service-policy output parent

will do the trick..

	oli

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lately..