Users Guide

Rate shaping buffers, rather than drops, traffic exceeding the specified rate until the buffer is exhausted. If any stream exceeds the
configured bandwidth on a continuous basis, it can consume all of the buffer space that is allocated to the port.
Apply rate shaping to outgoing traffic on a port.
INTERFACE mode
rate shape
Apply rate shaping to a queue.
QoS Policy mode
rate-shape
Dell#configure terminal
Dell(conf)#interface tengigabitethernet 1/1
Dell(conf-if-te-1/1)#rate shape 500 50
Dell(conf-if-te-1/1)#end
Policy-Based QoS Configurations
Policy-based QoS configurations consist of the components shown in the following example.
Figure 109. Constructing Policy-Based QoS Configurations
Classify Traffic
Class maps differentiate traffic so that you can apply separate quality of service policies to different types of traffic.
For both class maps, Layer 2 and Layer 3, Dell Networking OS matches packets against match criteria in the order that you configure
them.
Quality of Service (QoS)
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