Re: Rate-limiting on Cat6K (off topic)

From: Dan (dp595@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Feb 26 2001 - 15:40:03 GMT-3


   
6509 Running IOS, and I think I had the burst rates wrong in my example
below. I want 9MB of burst, therefore 1125000 bytes of burst (not 1250000).
Am I using the correct logic here?

Dan Pontrelli
Customer Installation Engineer - Verio NYC
CCNP, MCSE, CNA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Shin" <dshin@cisco.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>; <dp595@optonline.net>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Rate-limiting on Cat6K (off topic)

> Are you running hybrid or native IOS?
>
> Answers embedded...
>
>
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> > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:18:16 -0500
> > From: Dan <dp595@optonline.net>
> > Subject: Rate-limiting on Cat6K (off topic)
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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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