[c-nsp] difference between "bandwidth" and "priority" command inpolicy

[Jeff Tantsura]

Hi Tim,

These commands behave differently:

Once again, "priority <bandwidth>" would police only in case of congestion
while "priority + police rate" would police on rate configured.

Regards,
Jeff    

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Tim Franklin
> Sent: maandag 9 juni 2008 12:05
> To: Pelle
> Cc: cisco-nsp
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] difference between "bandwidth" and "priority" command
> inpolicy
> 
> On Thu, June 5, 2008 8:45 am, Pelle wrote:
> 
> > [1] this can either be configured as:
> >
> > class X
> >  priority <bandwidth>
> 
> In my experience, it's quite variable (by IOS, platform, phase of moon,
> etc) as to whether this *actually* implements a policer or not.  There's
> no harm, and a degree of safety in:
> 
> class X
>  priority <bandwidth>
>  police rate <bandwidth>
> 
> which is guaranteed to both provide the correct information to the
> scheduler, and to police the class.
> 
> Regards,
> Tim.
> 
> 
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