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Catalyst 3750 Metro Switch Command Reference
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Chapter 2 Catalyst 3750 Metro Switch Cisco IOS Commands
police
police
Use the police policy-map class configuration command to define a single-rate traffic policer for a class
of traffic. A policer defines a maximum permissible rate of transmission, a maximum burst size for
transmissions, and an action to take if either maximum is exceeded. Use the no form of this command
to remove an existing policer.
police rate-bps burst-byte [exceed-action {drop | policed-dscp-transmit}]
no police rate-bps burst-byte [exceed-action {drop | policed-dscp-transmit}]
Syntax Description
Defaults No policers are defined.
Command Modes Policy-map class configuration
Command History
Usage Guidelines On a standard port and on the input of an ES port, the port ASIC device that controls the ports supports
256 policers on the switch (255 user-configurable policers plus 1 policer reserved for system internal
use). The maximum number of policers that can be configured per port is 63. Policers are allocated on
demand by the software and are constrained by the hardware and ASIC boundaries. You cannot reserve
policers per port. There is no guarantee that a port will be assigned to any policer. These limitations do
not apply to policers configured in a hierarchical policy attached to an ES port.
In Cisco IOS Release 12.2(25)EY or later, when configuring hierarchical dual-level policy maps, you
can only use the police policy-map command in a secondary interface-level policy map.
To return to policy-map configuration mode, use the exit command. To return to privileged EXEC mode,
use the end command.
Policing uses a token-bucket algorithm. You configure the bucket depth (the maximum burst that is
tolerated before the bucket overflows) by using the burst-byte option of the police policy-map class
configuration command or the mls qos aggregate-policer global configuration command. You configure
rate-bps Specify the average traffic rate in bps. The range is 8000 to 1000000000.
burst-byte Specify the normal burst size in bytes. The range is 8000 to 1000000.
exceed-action drop (Optional) When the specified rate is exceeded, specify that the switch drop
the packet.
exceed-action
policed-dscp-transmit
(Optional) When the specified rate is exceeded, specify that the switch
change the Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) of the packet to that
specified in the policed-DSCP map and then send the packet.
Note This exceed-action policed-dscp-transmit keywords are not
supported in ingress and egress hierarchical policies on
enhanced-services (ES) ports.
Release Modification
12.1(14)AX This command was introduced.