Cisco 10000 Series User Manual

CHAPTER
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Cisco 10000 Series Router Quality of Service Configuration Guide
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Overhead Accounting
This chapter describes overhead accounting on the Cisco 10000 series router and contains the following
topics:
• Overhead Accounting Features, page 10-1
• Configuration Commands for Overhead Accounting, page 10-5
• Subscriber Line Encapsulation Types, page 10-5
• Overhead Calculation on the Router, page 10-5
• Overhead Accounting and Hierarchical Policies, page 10-6
• Restrictions and Limitations for Overhead Accounting, page 10-7
• Configuring Overhead Accounting in a Hierarchical Policy, page 10-7
• Configuration Examples for Overhead Accounting, page 10-10
• Verifying Overhead Accounting, page 10-12
• Verification Examples for Overhead Accounting, page 10-13
• Related Documentation, page 10-15
Overhead Accounting Features
Overhead accounting enables the router to account for packet overhead when shaping traffic to a specific
rate. This accounting ensures that the router executes quality of service (QoS) features on the actual
bandwidth used by subscriber traffic.
The Cisco 10000 series router supports the following overhead accounting features:
• ATM Overhead Accounting, page 10-2
• MLP on LNS with HQoS and ATM Overhead Accounting, page 10-3
• Traffic Shaping Overhead Accounting for ATM, page 10-4
• Ethernet Overhead Accounting, page 10-4

Cisco 10000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	10000 Series
Category	Network Router
Language	English