Not to be nitpicky but policing and shaping are two differant things. 
Shaping tries to buffer and queue traffic above a commited rate,
smoothes it out.  Policing drops packets above the commited rate,no
buffering, enforcing said rate.

  Dave

Schwantz wrote:
> 
> Sorry, wrong choice of words perhaps. What I mean is to use the policing
> features of ATM. I believe using CAR will take up more processor power as
> compared to using the ATM policing.
> 
> ""MADMAN""  wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > What do you mean inherent?  You still need to define the shaping
> > charateristics when using vbr-nrt, default is line rate and the public
> > ATM network will police.
> >
> >   Dave
> >
> > Schwantz wrote:
> > >
> > > Why don't you use ATM's inherent policing attributes like vbr-nrt ?
> > >
> > > Schwantz
> > >
> > > ""Chuck's Long Road""  wrote in message
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > what you have provided in your configuration appears to be correct.
> > > >
> > > > do you have CEF turned on?
> > > >
> > > > how do you know it's not working? do you have a lot of non ip traffic
> on
> > > > your network? ( rate limiting does not effect non ip traffic ) are
you
> > > sure
> > > > you are pushing ip traffic through at a rate greater than 38 meg?
what
> > are
> > > > you doing to test?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ""sisco""  wrote in message
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > > i was trying to limit my 45Meg bandwidth to 38Meg using a
rate-limit
> > > > > command,but it doesn't work!
> > > > >
> > > > > interface ATM4/1/0.1 point-to-point
> > > > >  description DS3
> > > > >  bandwidth 45000
> > > > >  ip address xxxxxxxx 255.255.255.252
> > > > >  ip access-group 153 in
> > > > >  ip access-group 111 out
> > > > >  no ip unreachables
> > > > >  no ip proxy-arp
> > > > >  rate-limit input 38000000 84000 84000 conform-action transmit
> > > > exceed-action
> > > > > drop
> > > > >  pvc 19/555
> > > > >   encapsulation aal5snap
> > > > >
> > > > > thnks!
> > --
> > David Madland
> > CCIE# 2016
> > Sr. Network Engineer
> > Qwest Communications
> > 612-664-3367
> >
> > "You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." --Winston
> > Churchill
-- 
David Madland
CCIE# 2016
Sr. Network Engineer
Qwest Communications
612-664-3367

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." --Winston
Churchill




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