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Processing of Hierarchical Policers on ACX Series Routers

Hierarchical policer provisions a controlled sharing of an aggregate among micro-flows. For example, a hierarchical policer is used to share the bandwidth of a certain subscriber or user across different CoS settings of that user. Assume that the user is configured to connect using a logical interface, and the CoS functionality is configured using DiffServ code point (DSCP) in the traversed packet. The user is assigned an aggregate bandwidth of 140 Mbps. This consolidated bandwidth must be distributed and shared amongst the four supported CoS settings represented by DSCP values of 11, 12, 21, and 22 respectively in the order of 50 Mbps, 40 Mbps, 30 Mbps and 20 Mbps. To obtain this behavior, you must perform the following configurations:

  • Configure micro-flows--A micro-flow is characterized by all packets that pass through the same micro policer (or child policer) instance. To enable this configuration, packets must be classified as micro-flows by using filters to match the packets, and the action of the filter to refer to the macro policer. You can group and combine packets matching multiple different filters or terms into a single micro-flow by specifying the same policer instance across the different filters and terms. These settings are identical to the configuration required to associate a single-level policer with a filter.

  • Assign child policers to the aggregate policer--This step is additional, from the procedure to create a single-level policer, to configure a hierarchical policer. You must link or associate the child policers to the parent or aggregate policer. You can perform this linking by specifying at each child policer by using the aggregate-policing aggregate-policer-name statement at the [edit firewall policer policer-name] hierarchy level.

Note:

Hierarchical policer is not applicable on ACX5048 and ACX5096 routers.