Users Guide
Example of the rate police Command
The following example shows configuring rate policing.
Dell#configure terminal
Dell(conf)#interface tengigabitethernet 1/1
Dell(conf-if-te-1/1)#rate police 100 40 peak 150 50
Dell(conf-if-te-1/1)#end
Dell#show interfaces tengigabitEthernet 1/2 rate police
 Rate police 300 (50) peak 800 (50)
 Traffic Monitor 0: normal 300 (50) peak 800 (50)
 Out of profile yellow 23386960 red 320605113
 Traffic Monitor 1: normal NA peak NA
 Out of profile yellow 0 red 0
 Traffic Monitor 2: normal NA peak NA
 Out of profile yellow 0 red 0
 Traffic Monitor 3: normal NA peak NA
 Out of profile yellow 0 red 0
 Traffic Monitor 4: normal NA peak NA
 Out of profile yellow 0 red 0
Configuring Port-Based Rate Shaping
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.
Dell Networking OS Behavior: Rate shaping is effectively rate limiting because of its smaller buffer size. Rate shaping on tagged 
ports is slightly greater than the configured rate and rate shaping on untagged ports is slightly less than configured rate.
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
Example of rate shape Command
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
Quality of Service (QoS) 688










