What is the difference between rate and priority policies?

Products

• PacketShaper

Issue/Introduction

Problem Description

Rate policies assign specific rate in bits per second per TCP connection. In addition, you can specify how much excess bandwidth each connection may use. Priority policies denote only relative importance of a flow and do not specify how much rate is given or how excess is allocated.

Resolution

For more information about policies, see Policy Overview in PacketGuide. Or, you can see more specific information: Set a Rate Policy or Set a Priority Policy.