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rate police
c e s
Police the incoming traffic rate on the selected interface.
Syntax
rate police [kbps] committed-rate [burst-KB] [peak [kbps] peak-rate [burst-KB]] [vlan vlan-id]
Parameters
Defaults
Granularity for commit ed-rate and peak-rate is Mbps unless the kbps option is used.
Command Mode
INTERFACE
Command
History
Usage
Information
C-Series and S-Series
On one interface, you can configure the rate police command for a VLAN or you can
configure the rate police command for an interface. For each physical interface, you can
configure three rate police commands specifying different VLANS.
kbps
Enter this keyword to specify the rate limit in Kilobits per second (Kbps).
On C-Series, S-Series, S4810, and S4820T make the following value a
multiple of 64. On the E-Series, Force10 recommends using a value
greater than or equal to 512 as lower values does not yield accurate results.
The default granularity is Megabits per second (Mbps).
Range: 0 to 10000000
committed-rate
Enter a number as the bandwidth in Mbps.
Range: 0 to 10000
burst-KB
(OPTIONAL) Enter a number as the burst size in KB.
Range: 16 to 200000
Default: 50
peak peak-rate (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword peak followed by a number to specify
the peak rate in Mbps.
Range: 0 to 10000
vlan vlan-id (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword vlan followed by a VLAN ID to police
traffic to those specific VLANs.
Range: 1 to 4094
Version 8.3.19.0 Introduced on S4820T
version 8.3.7.0 Introduced on S4810
Version 8.2.1.0 Added
kbps option on C-Series, E-Series, and S-Series.
Version 7.6.1.0 Introduced on S-Series
Version 7.5.1.0 Introduced on C-Series
pre-Version 6.1.1.1 Introduced on E-Series
Note: Per Port rate limit and rate police is supported for Layer 2 tagged and
untagged switched traffic and for Layer 3 traffic. Per VLAN rate limit and rate police is
supported on only tagged ports with Layer 2 switched traffic.