Getting Started with
The Role of Policies
Policies are used to decide what happens to selected classes of traffic. Policies work to translate
The reservation bandwidth rate specifies the rate you want to assure traffic can access when the network is congested. If you want this rate to increase unbounded during uncongested periods, do not specify a maximum bandwidth value. If you want to limit the traffic to a specific rate even when there is no congestion, then specify a maximum bandwidth rate.
The reservation and maximum bandwidth rates assigned to traffic classes must take into account the total bandwidth available on the local network to which the
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filter filter1 { filter1_attributes
}
filter filter2 { filter2_attributes
}
policy policy1 { policy1_attributes
}
policy policy2 { policy2_attributes
}
adapter lanX { adapter_attributes
}
adapter lanY { adapter_attributes
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