[j-nsp] policer useless
Jason Parsons
jparsons@saffron.net
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:17:03 -0400
On Wednesday, Sep 11, 2002, at 10:14 US/Eastern, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> You're doing policing, which sabotages TCP's congestion avoidance
> mechanisms. A problem VERY well known since the days of the IMPs. :-)
>
> Basically, you have no chance. You need to do queuing... with
> policing you're totally lost.
I would love to see some Juniper folks comment on this. Is there
really no way to configure a policer and see acceptable TCP throughput
(and associated congestion avoidance)? What's the suggested
configuration for policing a single customer interface down to a lower
rate, especially if that customer delivers lots of TCP traffic?
- Jason