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HAPTER O ONFIGURATION
Two token buckets are used in this evaluation. Their rates of putting tokens into the
buckets are CIR and PIR respectively, and their sizes are CBS and EBS respectively (the
two buckets are called C bucket and E bucket respectively for short), representing
different permitted burst levels. In each evaluation, you can implement different
regulation policies in different conditions, including "enough tokens in C bucket",
"insufficient tokens in C bucket but enough tokens in E bucket" and "insufficient
tokens in both C bucket and E bucket".
TP
The typical application of TP is to supervise the specification of certain traffic into the
network and limit it within a reasonable range, or to punish the extra traffic.
Therefore, the network resources and the interests of the operators are protected. For
example, you can limit HTTP packets within 50% of the network bandwidth. If the
traffic of a certain connection is excess, TP can choose to drop the packets or to reset
the priority of the packets.
TP is widely used in policing the traffic into the network of internet service providers
(ISP).TP can classify the policed traffic and perform pre-defined policing actions
according to different evaluation results. These actions include:
Forward: Forward the packet whose evaluation result is "conforming" or mark
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DSCP precedence for Diff-Serv packets and then forward them.
Drop: Drop the packet whose evaluation result is "nonconforming".
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Modify the precedence and forward: Modify the priority of the packets whose
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evaluation result is "partly-conforming" and forward them.
Enter the next-rank policing: TP can be piled up rank by rank and each rank polices
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more detailed objects.
TS
TS is a measure to regulate the output rate of traffic actively. Its typical application is
to control local traffic output based on the TP indexes of downstream network nodes.
The major difference between TS and TP is that the packets to be dropped in TP are
cached in TS—usually in buffers or queues, as shown in Figure 68. When there are
enough tokens in the token bucket, the cached packets are sent out evenly. Another
difference between TP and TS is that TS may increase the delay while TP hardly
increases the delay.
Figure 68 Diagram for TS
Packets sent via this
interface
Put tokens into the bucket at the set rate
Classify
Token bucket
Continue to send
Queue
Drop