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

Tim Franklin tim at pelican.org
Mon Jun 9 07:00:35 EDT 2008


On Mon, June 9, 2008 11:26 am, Jeff Tantsura wrote:

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

Good point, if you want the priority class to be able to gobble nearly-all
bandwidth in the uncongested case.

I maintain the original point though, which is that 'priority <bandwidth>'
does not anything like consistently police in a congestion scenario.

Regards,
Tim.




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