User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Command Line Interface
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1: CLI Basics
- Stacking compatibility
- Software version 2.0 compatibility with BayStack 450 switches
- New features
- CLI command modes
- Port numbering
- IP notation
- Accessing the CLI
- Setting the CLI password
- Getting help
- Basic navigation
- Managing basic system information
- Managing MAC address forwarding database table
- Displaying and setting stack operational mode
- Chapter 2: General CLI commands
- Setting the terminal
- Pinging
- Automatically loading configuration file
- Assigning and clearing IP addresses
- Assigning and clearing IP addresses for specific units
- Setting Telnet access
- Setting server for Web-based management
- Setting boot parameters
- Setting TFTP parameters
- Upgrading software
- Displaying interfaces
- Setting SNMP parameters
- Setting the system event log
- Displaying port statistics
- Enabling or disabling a port
- Naming ports
- Setting port speed
- Enabling Autopology
- Enabling flow control
- Enabling rate-limiting
- Chapter 3: Security
- Using the IP manager list
- Using MAC address security
- show mac-security command
- show mac-security mac-da-filter command
- mac-security command
- mac-security mac-address-table address command
- mac-security security-list command
- no mac-security command
- no mac-security mac-address-table command
- no mac-security security-list command
- mac-security command for specific ports
- mac-security mac-da-filter command
- Using EAPOL-based security
- Using RADIUS authentication
- Chapter 4: Spanning Tree, MLT, and Port-Mirroring
- Using spanning tree
- show spanning-tree command
- spanning-tree stp create command by STG
- spanning-tree stp delete command by STG
- spanning-tree stp enable command by STG
- spanning-tree stp disable command by STG
- spanning-tree command by STG
- default spanning-tree command by STG
- spanning-tree add-vlan command
- spanning-tree remove-vlan command
- spanning-tree command by port
- default spanning-tree command by port
- no spanning-tree command by port
- Using MLT
- Using port-mirroring
- Using spanning tree
- Chapter 5: VLANs and IGMP
- Increased VLAN support
- Configuring and displaying VLANs
- show vlan interface info command
- show vlan interface vids command
- vlan mgmt command
- default vlan mgmt command
- vlan create command
- vlan delete command
- no vlan command
- vlan name command
- auto-pvid command
- no auto-pvid command
- vlan ports command
- vlan members command
- show vlan mac-address command
- vlan mac-address command
- no vlan mac-address command
- Displaying multicast membership
- Using IGMP snooping
- Chapter 6: Policy-enabled networks and QoS
- Displaying QoS parameters
- Resetting
- Configuring COPS
- Configuring QoS interface groups
- Configuring DSCP and 802.1p and queue associations
- Configuring QoS filters and filter groups
- Configuring QoS actions
- Configuring QoS meters
- Configuring QoS shapers
- Gathering QoS statistics
- Configuring QoS policies
- Reordering packets
- Appendix A: Command List
- Index

Chapter 2 General CLI commands 111
Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Command Line Interface
Enabling rate-limiting
You can limit the percentage of multicast traffic, or broadcast traffic, or both using
the CLI. For more information on rate-limiting, refer to Using the Business Policy
Switch 2000 Software Version 2.0.
This section covers:
• “show rate-limit command,” next
• “rate-limit command” on page 112
• “no rate-limit command” on page 113
• “default rate-limit command” on page 114
show rate-limit command
The show rate-limit command displays the rate-limiting settings and
statistics. The syntax for the
show rate-limit command is:
show rate-limit
The show rate-limit command is in the privExec command mode.
The
show rate-limit command has no parameters or variables.
Figure 23 displays sample output from the
show rate-limit command.
Table 53 default flowcontrol command parameters and variables
Parameters and
variables
Description
port <portlist> Specifies the port numbers to default to auto flow control.
Note: If you omit this parameter, the system uses the port
number you specified in the interface command.