What is a major difference between traffic shaping and policing?

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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.

Exam with this question: CCNP SWITCH (Version 6.0) Chapter 7 Exam

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