[c-nsp] Policing Confusion

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

I have also used -hierarchical- ingress policing (because egress policing/shaping wasn't 
supported) and it works quite well. I just have to be more restrictive on the policing rates.

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Tassos

Church, Charles wrote on 06/01/2009 02:28:
> Agree.  We've used this inbound as well on our links to our peers for
> P2P traffic.  Works pretty well, as long as it's TCP and you're shaping
> it. 
> 
> 
> Chuck 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Brett Looney
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:05 PM
> To: 'cisco_nsp'
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Policing Confusion
> 
> 
>> It is a bit dissapointing to know that you cant really manipulate
>> the types of traffic inbound only outbound. I understand why though.
> 
> I've used inbound policing and shaping on heavily congested links with
> some
> success - it has the effect of applying back-pressure to the incoming
> streams - delaying ACKs and dropping packets; therefore slowing down
> subsequent traffic. It isn't perfect but it does work to a degree - it
> just
> isn't as good as outbound.
> 
> B.
> 
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