Users Guide
Version Description
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
9.0.2.0 Introduced on the S6000.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
8.2.1.0 Policy name character limit increased from 16 to 32.
7.6.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series and S-Series.
6.1.1.1 Introduced on the E-Series.
Usage Information
Use this command to specify the name of the output QoS policy. Once output policy is specified, rate-shape, 
scheduler strict, bandwidth-percentage, and WRED can be defined. This command enables the qos-policy-output 
configuration mode—(conf-qos-policy-out).
Related Commands
• bandwidth-percentage — assigns percentage of bandwidth to the class/queue.
• wred — assigns yellow or green drop precedence.
rate-police
Specify the policing functionality on incoming traffic.
S6000–ON
Syntax
rate-police [kbps] committed-rate [burst-KB] [peak [kbps] peak-rate [burst-KB]]
Parameters
kbps Enter the keyword kbps to specify the rate limit in Kilobits per second (Kbps). Make the 
following value a multiple of 64. The range is from 0 to 40000000. The default granularity 
is Megabits per second (Mbps).
committed-rate Enter the bandwidth in Mbps. The range is from 0 to 40000.
burst-KB (OPTIONAL) Enter the burst size in KB. The range is from 16 to 200000. The default is 
100.
peak peak-rate (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword peak then a number to specify the peak rate in Mbps. 
The range is from 0 to 40000. The default is the same as designated for committed-
rate
.
Defaults Burst size is 100KB. peak-rate is by default the same as committed-rate. Granularity for committed-
rate and peak-rate is Mbps unless you use the kbps option.
Command Modes QOS-POLICY-IN
Command History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell Networking 
OS Command Line Reference Guide.
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