Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

Thu Jul 8 23:41:31 UTC 2010

Agree...when you rate limit verse shaping you can actually cause more 
traffic because the packets need to be retransmitted to deal with those 
that got dropped.

On 07/08/2010 06:43 PM, Murphy, Jay, DOH wrote:
> traffic-shape rate 75000000 90000000 90000000 1000 for example. Your rate limit will police your traffic and drop it all.
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> 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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> ~Jay Murphy
> IP Network Specialist
> NM State Government
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