[j-nsp] Policer burst-size-limit, can someone please explain?

[Judah Scott]

Thanks,

I am still stumped on the effect (or seeming lack thereof) of
burst-size-limit given the fact that the same amount of packets is always
getting through the policer on a burst, despite changing this value.

-J Scott




On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Phill Jolliffe <phill.jolliffe at gmail.com>wrote:

> This link claims all L2 header is counted. But as best I remember frames
> FCS is stripped and regen'd be each PE.
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> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos95/swconfig-vpns/id-11513841.html#id-11525104
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> Not found a mention of IFG.
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> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Judah Scott <judah.scott.iam at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Is there a document that can explain the attached code block for us?  In
>> case the screen shot isn't clear, I am basically just sending a
>> single-shot
>> of traffic (the packets are sent over 1 second) with, or without, a
>> baseline
>> constant traffic which is below the policed rate.
>>
>> Questions I have are:
>> Does "bandwidth-limit" include Inter-frame Gap?  Does it include L2
>> header?
>> What does the "burst-size-limit" (MBS) actually do because looking at my
>> attached gif it doesn't seem to have any effect on bursts.  No matter what
>> I
>> set the MBS to I lose packets (not shown but the results are identical for
>> 100g MBS as the rest of the lines in the file).
>>
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