Microsens MS453490M Management Guide User Manual

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if Te(t)-B ≥ 0, the packets is yellow and Te is decremented by B

down to the minimum value of 0,

else the packet is red and neither Tc nor Te is decremented.

When a packet of size B bytes arrives at time t, the following happens if

srTCM is configured to operate in Color-Aware mode:

If the packet has been precolored as green and Tc(t)-B ≥ 0, the

packet is green and Tc is decremented by B down to the minimum

value of 0, else

If the packet has been precolored as yellow or green and if
Te(t)-B ≥ 0, the packets is yellow and Te is decremented by B down

to the minimum value of 0, else

the packet is red and neither Tc nor Te is decremented.

The metering policy guarantees a deterministic behavior where the

volume of green packets is never smaller than what has been

determined by the CIR and BC, that is, tokens of a given color are

always spent on packets of that color. Refer to RFC 2697 for more

information on other aspects of srTCM.

trTCM Police Meter – Defines an enforcer for classified traffic based on a

two rate three color meter scheme defined in RFC 2698. This metering

policy monitors a traffic stream and processes its packets according to the

committed information rate (CIR, or maximum throughput), peak

information rate (PIR), and their associated burst sizes – committed burst

size (BC, or burst rate), and peak burst size (BP). Action may taken for

traffic conforming to the maximum throughput, exceeding the maximum

throughput, or exceeding the peak burst size.

The PHB label is composed of five bits, three bits for per-hop behavior,

and two bits for the color scheme used to control queue congestion. In

addition to the actions defined by this command to transmit, remark

the DSCP service value, or drop a packet, the switch will also mark the

two color bits used to set the drop precedence of a packet for Random

Early Detection. A packet is marked red if it exceeds the PIR. Otherwise

it is marked either yellow or green depending on whether it exceeds or

doesn't exceed the CIR.

The trTCM is useful for ingress policing of a service, where a peak rate

needs to be enforced separately from a committed rate.

The meter operates in one of two modes. In the color-blind mode, the

meter assumes that the packet stream is uncolored. In color-aware

mode the meter assumes that some preceding entity has pre-colored

the incoming packet stream so that each packet is either green, yellow,

or red. The marker (re)colors an IP packet according to the results of

the meter. The color is coded in the DS field [RFC 2474] of the packet.

The behavior of the meter is specified in terms of its mode and two

token buckets, P and C, which are based on the rates PIR and CIR,

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