Administrator Guide

Rate shaping buers, rather than drops, trac exceeding the specied rate until the buer is exhausted. If any stream exceeds the
congured bandwidth on a continuous basis, it can consume all of the buer space that is allocated to the port.
• Apply rate shaping to outgoing trac on a port.
INTERFACE mode
rate shape
• Apply rate shaping to a queue.
QoS Policy mode
rate-shape
Example of rate shape Command
Dell#configure terminal
Dell(conf)#interface gigabitethernet 1/1
Dell(conf-if-gi-1/1)#rate shape 500 50
Dell(conf-if-gi-1/1)#end
Policy-Based QoS Congurations
Policy-based QoS congurations consist of the components shown in the following example.
Figure 99. Constructing Policy-Based QoS Congurations
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Quality of Service (QoS)