Leaf Router
Capabilities
- Does policing and marking
- Does Multi-Flow Classification
- Deals with Customer links, which are slow, and hence can afford to do policing and marking.
- Provide an interface to the BB
‘tc’ script to do the MFC, policing and marking
- MFC implemented with ‘u32’ filters
- Policer implemented with ‘u32’ filters
- Marking can be done with a dsmark queuing discipline
AF and EF
- Policer drops excess “premium” traffic
- Policer remarks out-of-profile “AF” traffic as “best-effort”