This document clarifies the functional differences between shaping and policing, both of which limit the output rate. Though both mechanisms use a token bucket as a traffic meter to measure the packet rate, they have important functional differences.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Cisco Systems, QoS Policing: Comparing Traffic Policing and Traffic Shaping for Bandwidth Limiting
This document clarifies the functional differences between shaping and policing, both of which limit the output rate. Though both mechanisms use a token bucket as a traffic meter to measure the packet rate, they have important functional differences.
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