Service-policy input / service-policy output

[muca]

Hello,

I am a bit confused about input and output service-policy so just wondering if the way I understand it is correct.

Let say we have a connection between two locations

R1 --wan--R2

R1 has the following configuration

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int fastethernet0

service-policy output marktraffic

int serial0

service-policy output marktraffic2

First question

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Packets to R2 (R1->R2) would be marked according to the serial interface policy marktraffic2 and packets from R2 (R2->R1) would be marked according to fa0 marktraffic1 policy. Is that correct?

Second question

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Now, let's say I have this config

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interface fa0

service-policy input marktraffic

int serial0

service-policy output marktraffic2

Packets going to R2 (R1->R2) would be marked with the policy marktraffic on the

fa0 interface but then would be remarked again using marktraffic2 policy on the serial interface.

No packets would be marked coming from R2. Is that correct?

Thanks a lot.

[andrew.prince]

First Question - No. Packets leaving the s0 interface on R1 going to R2 will be marked. Any packets LEAVING R1 FA0 onto the LAN will be marked - not entirely just from R2.

Second Question - Yes.

HTH>

[muca]

Thanks Andrew

Regarding question 1

What will be marking packets coming from R2 onto R1 lan will be the:

int fastethernet0

service-policy output marktraffic

not

int serial0

service-policy output marktraffic2

Is that right?

If I just had the interface serial0 output police on R1 would packets coming from R2 onto the R1 lan also be marked?

Thanks

[andrew.prince]

Joseph has given you all the information!

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Andrew has answered your quesitions, but if you wanted to mark traffic to/from R2 on R1, you might:

int serial0

service-policy input marktraffic

service-policy output marktraffic2

I.e., you can have both an in and out policy on an interface.