[LARTC] Burst Rate?

[Scott Baker]

If I'm using the following to very simply police my incoming bandwidth:

ingress {
   $p = bucket(rate 7Mbps, burst 1000kB, mpu 200B);
   class (1) if (conform $p && count $p) || drop;
}

How should i be calculate the burst rate? Cisco has their own special 
algorithm for calculating the correct burst rate, is there a similar method 
I should be using to calculate burst on a linux box?  Also are there any 
improvement in the 2.6.x kernel with regards to traffic shaping?

Scott


Scott Baker - Network Engineer - RHCE
bakers @ web-ster . com - 503.266.8253