Yes, that is my understanding as well.

limit-at is CIR while max-limit is MIR.

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On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Sales <[email protected]> wrote:

> Isn't limit-at more of carving a reserved chunk of bandwidth out for the
> rule? I.e limit-at=120k will make sure this is always got 120k ?
>
> John Buwa
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>
> On Dec 31, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 18:15 -0600, Dennis Burgess wrote:
>>
>>> Bursting, is based on "average" data usage.  If the average data usage
>>> goes over the burst-threshold, then the customer will not be able to
>>> reach the burst speed.  So if you burst threshold should be set
>>> typically to slightly lower than the limit-at.  That way, once they
>>> "average' over that burst threshold, they can no longer reach the
>>> bust-limit.  So then they will stay at their limit-at.
>>>
>>
>> Close...not "limit-at", though.  This should read "max-limit" in the
>> places you have limit-at.
>>
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