Greetings,
cisco's new Committed Access Rate feature lets you do real QoS rate limiting (as opposed to traffic shaping) with access lists.
CAR could be implemented on either ingress/egress interfaces to limit bandwidth usage by ICMP to something safe like 5MBits.
This would prevent an incoming ICMP flood from consuming your aggregation links, while it still might inconvenience a T1 customer.
If placed on the outgoing access-list it can prevent your network from originating unfriendly amounts of ICMP.
CAR can either discard or decrease the priority of the offending traffic.
A couple of questions:
I am unfamiliar with what tier 1 providers use as aggregation routers(routers their T3+ customers connect to). Due to CAR's
potentially CPU intensive nature (when dealing with access-list based traffic limiting compared to address based limiting), would
an "ICMP permit with exceed-action drop" filter constitute an unacceptable load on the CPU and memory of these routers?
If I only had 1 multi-megabit transit pipe, is it reasonable(in the future) of me to ask/require my upstream provider to protect
my pipe from being wasted by large amounts of ICMP? If I only put it on my side, the pipe still gets wasted.
Are there any other vendors who offer a similar feature without the use of ATM?
Thank you.
Marko