A network administrator notices that bursty data transfers sent across a 100 Mbps physical interface to a service provider are experiencing heavy packet loss. The service provider enforces a strict 20 Mbps Committed Information Rate (CIR) using a policer at their ingress edge. Which Quality of Service (QoS) mechanism should the administrator configure on the local router's egress interface to prevent provider-side packet drops by smoothing out the traffic rate?
- Traffic shaping to buffer out-of-profile packets in memory and release them at a steady rate matching the contracted limit.Cevap
- BTraffic policing to store non-conforming packets in a dynamic queue until interface bandwidth becomes available.
- CLow Latency Queuing (LLQ) to strictly prioritize all bursty data packets over control traffic.
- DClass-Based Weighted Fair Queuing (CBWFQ) to drop lower-priority data packets locally before they reach the provider line.
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Traffic shaping to buffer out-of-profile packets in memory and release them at a steady rate matching the contracted limit.
Traffic shaping is designed to rate-limit outbound traffic to a contracted Committed Information Rate (CIR) by buffering bursts in memory and transmitting packets continuously at a steady rate. This prevents the provider's ingress policer from seeing rate spikes and dropping packets.
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Differences in operational mechanics between QoS Traffic Policing and Traffic Shaping