Re: Policing and dropping packets

Hmm,
Be/Bc/Tc are ways to describe a rate measure. There is no buffer
involved, in the sense of a memory chunk, AFAIK.

-Carlos

Joe Astorino @ 21/7/2011 13:20 -0300 dixit:
> Let me be a little bit more precise -- The BE bucket is just a bunch of
> bytes. So, when you configure the BE to be 8000 bytes you are literally
> defining the size of that bucket. Now, as you go along you may see
> anywhere from 0 - 8000 bytes in the bucket, but the SIZE of the bucket
> never changes. You can NEVER have more than 8000 bytes in the bucket,
> as overflow of the BE is just spilled out and lost
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Joe Astorino
> <joeastorino1982_at_gmail.com <mailto:joeastorino1982_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Pretty close. The BE bucket won't ever exceed 64,000 bits though
> because you defined it to be a size of 64,000 bits -- no more, no
> less. That doesn't change. If a packet comes in, and the BC bucket
> is EMPTY (no tokens left -- you've used them all) and the BE bucket
> is EMPTY (no tokens left because you used them all) it will drop the
> packet
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Joe Astorino
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>
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>

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