Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Administration Guide

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Configuring Control Plane Policing and Layer 2
Control Packet QoS
Note CoPP is supported on the following: Supervisor 6-E and Catalyst 4900M starting with Cisco IOS Release
12.2(50)SG; Supervisor 6L-E starting with Cisco IOS Release 12.2(52)X0; Catalyst 4948-E starting
with Cisco IOS Release 12.2(54)X0; Supervisor Engine 7-E starting with Cisco IOS XE 3.1.0SG;
Supervisor Engine 7L-E starting with Cisco IOS XE 3.2.0XO; Supervisor Engine 8-E starting with Cisco
IOS XE 3.3.0SG.
This chapter contains information on how to protect your Catalyst 4500 series switch using control plane
policing (CoPP). The information covered in this chapter is unique to the Catalyst 4500 series switches,
and it supplements the network security information and procedures in Chapter 54, “Configuring
Network Security with ACLs.” This information also supplements the network security information and
procedures in these publications:
• Cisco IOS Security Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS Release 12.4, at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/security/configuration/guide/12_4/sec_12_4_book.html
• Cisco IOS Security Command Reference, Cisco IOS Release 12.4, at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/security/command/reference/sec_book.html
This chapter includes the following major sections:
• Configuring Control Plane Policing, page 51-2
• Monitoring CoPP, page 51-9
• Configuring Layer 2 Control Packet QoS, page 51-11
• Policing IPv6 Control Traffic, page 51-16
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the switch commands used in this chapter, see the Cisco
Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Command Reference and related publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/index.html
If a command is not in the Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Command Reference, you can locate it in the
Cisco IOS library. See the Cisco IOS Command Reference and related publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/index.html

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