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Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> 2) Allows for queueing incoming traffic for shaping instead of
> dropping. I am not aware of any study that shows policing is
> worse than shaping in achieving the end goal of rate control.
> I would be interested if anyone is experimenting. Nevertheless,
> this is still an alternative as opposed to making a system wide
> ingress change.

Policing didn't work with IPv6 last time I checked.


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