Traffic conditioning contains two major components:
•Policers—Policers perform traffic policing, which means dropping packets that
exceed a defined rate to control the rate at which traffic passes through the policer.
Examples of policers implemented by Cisco are the committed access rate (CAR)
policer and the class-based policer. The goal of policing is to rate limit traffic; an
example of a practical application for a policer is to limit the amount of FTP traffic
allowed to go out of a given interface to 1 Mbps. Traffic that exceeds this 1-Mbps rate
limit is dropped. TCP retransmits ...
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