Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

Thu Jul 8 23:54:56 UTC 2010

Antonio Querubin wrote:
> 
> Traffic-shaping 80Mb/s of traffic is probably not a good idea for your 
> router cpu :)
> 

Honestly, cpu overhead shouldn't be an issue with a traffic shape queue. 
If it is, probably a seriously underpowered router or poor code. Now if 
you applied extensive rules for various traffic at different rates and 
queue priorities, I could see lots of extra ticks.

Don't get me wrong. I have 400mbps+ traffic shapes on my junipers and 
probably glad for the extensive hardware support (like I have a choice, 
no hardware support, the router won't do it)

Jack