🙂 hope you found a solution. we learn something new everyday~
Yea, i've also read the QoS Day One book, the explanation is pretty good and all, but the configuration is quite convoluted for my taste lol.
But yea, I wasn't aware of the ability to apply policer directly to an interface before (only knew about it couple weeks ago), and on top of that choose either input or output traffic. Very useful for just needing to control egress rate because not every client/customer can afford Symmetric bandwidth lines. 😉
Also, can you try:
set firewall filter FILTERNAME term TERMNAME then ?
Do you see policer as an option there?
I am still trying to figure out why Juniper would omit such function from an high-end SRX... seems weird... But it's juniper who also omits DHCP as a valid option in the zone policy lol... weird stuff.