Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

Thu Jul 8 22:43:40 UTC 2010

traffic-shape rate 75000000 90000000 90000000 1000 for example. Your rate limit will police your traffic and drop it all.

Traffic shaping produces a queue, and does not completely junk a packet. It becomes q'd, and produces a smoother output.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Querubin [mailto:tony at lava.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 4:26 PM
To: Alan Bryant
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Alan Bryant wrote:

> The problem we have now is that we are only paying for 80 MB/s of the
> OC-3, and the ISP is leaving the capping of it up to us. I have

BTW, rate-limiting of traffic that the ISP router sends to your router is 
best done at the ISP router.

Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp:  tony at lava.net

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