350-501 Automation and Quality of Services Practice Question
What is the primary difference between traffic shaping and policing in a QoS implementation?
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Shaping buffers excess traffic, policing drops or re-marks
Shaping buffers excess traffic to smooth bursts, while policing drops or re-marks excess traffic to enforce a hard rate limit.
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Shaping is applied at ingress, policing at egress
Why it's wrong here
Both can be applied at either direction.
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Shaping buffers excess traffic, policing drops or re-marks
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This correctly describes the difference.
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Shaping uses a token bucket, policing uses a leaky bucket
Why it's wrong here
Both use token bucket algorithms.
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Shaping drops excess traffic, policing buffers it
Why it's wrong here
The opposite is true.
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