Traffic Shaping - H3C S7500E Series Configuration Manual

Figure 5-1 Schematic diagram for traffic policing
Packets to be sent
through this interface
Traffic policing is widely used in policing traffic entering the networks of internet service providers
(ISPs). It can classify the policed traffic and take pre-defined policing actions on each packet
depending on the evaluation result:
Forwarding the traffic if the evaluation result is "conforming."
Dropping the traffic if the evaluation result is "excess."
Modifying the DSCP priority of the conforming traffic and forwarding it.

Traffic Shaping

Traffic shaping supports shaping traffic to the outgoing traffic.
Traffic shaping provides measures to adjust the rate of outbound traffic actively. A typical traffic
shaping application is to limit the local traffic output rate according to the downstream traffic policing
parameters.
The difference between traffic policing and GTS is that packets to be dropped with traffic policing are
retained in a buffer or queue with GTS, as shown in
token bucket, the buffered packets are sent at an even rate. Traffic shaping may result in additional
delay while traffic policing does not.
Tokens are put into the
bucket at the set rate
Packet
classification
Token
bucket
Packets sent
Queue
Packets dropped
Figure
5-3
5-2. When there are enough tokens in the