What is a major difference between traffic shaping and policing?
- Traffic shaping buffers excessive traffic to smooth traffic whereas policing drops excessive traffic.
- Traffic shaping is preferred for traffic flows such as voice and video whereas policing is better for TCP flows.
- Traffic shaping controls the rate traffic flows through a switch whereas policing controls traffic flows through a router.
- Traffic shaping marks traffic with Layer 2 class of service (CoS) whereas policing marks traffic with the ToS bits in the IP header.
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