[altq 295] Re: Ingress traffic shaping?

[George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Understood.  From haht I read from Karl's post was that he
wants to rate limit on the ingress interface and a TCE will
do this.  Karl, is borrowing excess available BW a requirement?

George

> 
> George Uhl wrote:
> > Can't you use a traffic conditioner element to pass ingress traffic
> > coming over fxp0 to some acceptable rate and dropping the excess?
> 
> You can set up a traffic conditioner to discard packets more than its
> assigned rate but it doesn't allow you to share excess bandwidth.
> 
> Or, you can set up a conditioner to mark excess packets.  In this
> case, you have to create a bottleneck to do preferential dropping.
> 
> -Kenjiro