Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Command Reference Guide

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Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Command Reference—Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG and IOS 15.1(2)SG)
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Chapter 2 Cisco IOS Commands for the Catalyst 4500 Series Switches
police rate
Command Modes Policy-map configuration mode
Command History
Usage Guidelines Use the police rate command to limit traffic on the basis of pps, bps, or a percentage of interface
bandwidth.
If the police rate command is issued, but the a rate is not specified, traffic that is destined will be policed
on the basis of bps.
Examples This example shows how to configure policing on a class to limit traffic to an average rate of 1,500,000
bps:
Switch(config)# class-map c1
Switch(config-cmap)# match access-group 140
Switch(config-cmap)# exit
Switch(config)# policy-map p1
Switch(config-pmap)# class c1
Switch(config-pmap-c)# police rate 1500000 burst 500000
Switch(config-pmap-c)# exit
Related Commands
Release Modification
12.2(40)SG This command was introduced on the Catalyst 4500 series switch using a Supervisor
Engine 6-E.
Command Description
policy-map Creates or modifies a policy map that can be attached to multiple
ports to specify a service policy and to enter policy-map
configuration mode.
show policy-map Displays information about the policy map.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E