NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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NAME         top

       police - policing action

SYNOPSIS         top

       tc ... action police rate RATE burst BYTES[/BYTES] [ mtu
               BYTES[/BYTES] ] [ peakrate RATE ] [ overhead BYTES ] [
               linklayer TYPE ] [ CONTROL ]
       tc ... filter ... [ estimator SAMPLE AVERAGE ] action police avrate
               RATE [ CONTROL ]
       CONTROL := conform-exceed EXCEEDACT[/NOTEXCEEDACT
       EXCEEDACT/NOTEXCEEDACT := { pipe | ok | reclassify | drop | continue
               }

DESCRIPTION         top

       The police action allows to limit bandwidth of traffic matched by the
       filter it is attached to. Basically there are two different
       algorithms available to measure the packet rate: The first one uses
       an internal dual token bucket and is configured using the rate,
       burst, mtu, peakrate, overhead and linklayer parameters. The second
       one uses an in-kernel sampling mechanism. It can be fine-tuned using
       the estimator filter parameter.

OPTIONS         top

       rate RATE
              The maximum traffic rate of packets passing this action. Those
              exceeding it will be treated as defined by the conform-exceed
              option.
       burst BYTES[/BYTES]
              Set the maximum allowed burst in bytes, optionally followed by
              a slash ('/') sign and cell size which must be a power of 2.
       mtu BYTES[/BYTES]
              This is the maximum packet size handled by the policer (larger
              ones will be handled like they exceeded the configured rate).
              Setting this value correctly will improve the scheduler's
              precision.  Value formatting is identical to burst above.
              Defaults to unlimited.
       peakrate RATE
              Set the maximum bucket depletion rate, exceeding rate.
       avrate RATE
              Make use of an in-kernel bandwidth rate estimator and match
              the given RATE against it.
       overhead BYTES
              Account for protocol overhead of encapsulating output devices
              when computing rate and peakrate.
       linklayer TYPE
              Specify the link layer type.  TYPE may be one of ethernet (the
              default), atm or adsl (which are synonyms). It is used to
              align the precomputed rate tables to ATM cell sizes, for
              ethernet no action is taken.
       estimator SAMPLE AVERAGE
              Fine-tune the in-kernel packet rate estimator.  SAMPLE and
              AVERAGE are time values and control the frequency in which
              samples are taken and over what timespan an average is built.
       conform-exceed EXCEEDACT[/NOTEXCEEDACT]
              Define how to handle packets which exceed or conform the
              configured bandwidth limit. Possible values are:
              continue
                     Don't do anything, just continue with the next action
                     in line.
              drop   Drop the packet immediately.
              shot   This is a synonym to drop.
              ok     Accept the packet. This is the default for conforming
                     packets.
              pass   This is a synonym to ok.
              reclassify
                     Treat the packet as non-matching to the filter this
                     action is attached to and continue with the next filter
                     in line (if any). This is the default for exceeding
                     packets.
              pipe   Pass the packet to the next action in line.

EXAMPLES         top

       A typical application of the police action is to enforce ingress
       traffic rate by dropping exceeding packets. Although better done on
       the sender's side, especially in scenarios with lack of peer control
       (e.g. with dial-up providers) this is often the best one can do in
       order to keep latencies low under high load. The following
       establishes input bandwidth policing to 1mbit/s using the ingress
       qdisc and u32 filter:
              # tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle ffff: ingress
              # tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: u32 \
                   match u32 0 0 \
                   police rate 1mbit burst 100k
       As an action can not live on it's own, there always has to be a fil‐
       ter involved as link between qdisc and action. The example above uses
       u32 for that, which is configured to effectively match any packet
       (passing it to the police action thereby).

SEE ALSO         top

       tc(8)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the iproute2 (utilities for controlling TCP/IP
       networking and traffic) project.  Information about the project can
       be found at 
       ⟨http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2⟩.
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iproute2                         20 Jan 2015        Policing action in tc(8)