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O2_Support_6853
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May 11, 2010

Rate-Shaping bursty traffic

Currently we have an issue in our network with the following architecture: 6 servers ----------> F5 ver 10.1.0 -------------------> Cisco ASA ---------------------->Net B. All 6 servers need to ...
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May 13, 2010
Hi Hamish, thanks for the reply. I spoke to an SE in F5 and he stated that if you exceed the limit specified by the burst/ceiling rate it will discard the traffic as oppose to queue it so technically that is policing, not shaping. That worries me a little as it seems to imply no queue!

 

 

I would however like to test in the lab as the spikes occur within a millisecond or two and no spikes occur again for a number of seconds so the link is fairly idle for the rest of the period. I will reply once it has been tested.