Re: Rate-limiting on Cat6K (off topic)

From: Daniel Shin (dshin@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Feb 26 2001 - 15:12:08 GMT-3


   
Are you running hybrid or native IOS?

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CAR is not supported due to achitecture of catalysts.

> I am trying to rate-limit a connection on a Cat6K FastEthernet port.
> I want 1MB bandwidth burstable to 10MB. I looked at the Cisco website and I
> think the following would do the trick:
>
> rate-limit input 1000000 1250000 1250000 conform-action transmit
> exceed-action drop
> rate-limit output 1000000 1250000 1250000 conform-action transmit
> exceed-action drop
>
> Is this correct? I'm still having trouble understanding why 2 burst rates
> (normal and maximum) need to be specified.
>

If you don't, you will end up rate-limiting more traffic than intended. Think

about the traffic pattern. It bursts up and down - especially FTP.

> Thanks in advance for any input.
>
>
> Dan Pontrelli
> Customer Installation Engineer - Verio NYC
> CCNP, MCSE, CNA
>
>



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