On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kingsley Charles <[email protected]
> wrote:

> If you need to do rate-limiting per session or flow, then you need QoS
> policing. Using class maps you can classify the traffic.
>
> With rate-limiting it is straight, it just limits the traffic that enter
> the interface.
>
> For my example, you can rate-limit the 6 users per interface for example
> serial sub-interfaces.
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> Interface BW should not be considered here.
>
> You may have 100 Mbps Ethernet interface in your PC but your broadband
> connection may provide only 256 kbps which means you can send only 256 kbbs
> of data.
>
> It all depends on what link you have T1, T3, E1, E3, etc
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> With regards
> Kings
>
>   On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Michael Davis <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  So if I apply the rate limit, it limits per flow or per session, not in
>> total?  If I configure as you say below, each user will get 256k maximum,
>> but the full bandwidth of the interface can still be utilized.
>>
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>>
>> *From:* Kingsley Charles [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:08 PM
>> *To:* Michael Davis
>> *Cc:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] rate-limit command
>>
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>> You can configure rate-limit on a dialer interface.
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>> For PPPoE connection, the dialer interface is the one throught which the
>> traffic is sent/recieved, hence the rate-limit should be configured on it.
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>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Kingsley Charles <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Michael
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>> You need to configure rate-limit based on your link speed and the
>> requirement.
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>> Let's say you are an ISP having 1544 Kbps link and you are poviding 256
>> kbps for 6 users. To ensure that an user doesn't consume more than 256
>> kbps,  you need prevent the user by some means.
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>> Hence you either configure rate limit inbound on the ISP side or outbound
>> on the user side.
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>> rate-limit input 256000000 7000 4000 conform-action transmit exceed-action
>> drop
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>> With regards
>>
>> Kings
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>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Michael Davis <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>   Hi everyone – I have 2 questions about the legacy rate-limit command.
>>
>> 1.       How do we correctly calculate what the correct normal burst and
>> maximum (excess) burst setting should be?
>>
>> 2.       I know you should always apply the rate-limit or QOS service
>> policies to a physical interface, but I saw an ISP engineer apply the
>> rate-limit command to a dialer (pppoe) interface today.  Is this a
>> recommended practice?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michael
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