Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

R Commands
rate-limit
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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS System Management Command Reference
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rate-limit
To configure the source rate limit for Ethernet Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) packets in the specified
SPAN session, use the rate-limit command. To remove the rate limit configuration, use the no form of
this command.
rate-limit {auto | 1-100}
no rate-limit
Syntax Description
Defaults Disabled
Command Modes Monitor configuration (config-monitor)
Supported User Roles network-admin
vdc-admin
Command History
Usage Guidelines Make sure that you are in the correct virtual device context (VDC). To change the VDC, use the switchto
vdc command.
MTU truncation and the SPAN rate limit cannot be enabled for the same SPAN session. If you configure
both for one session, only the rate limit is allowed on F1 Series modules, and MTU truncation is disabled
until you disable the rate limit configuration.
Note SPAN rate limit is supported only on F1 Series modules and F2 Series modules.
This command does not require a license
Examples This example shows how to configure the rate limit for SPAN packets in the specified SPAN session:
switch# configure terminal
switch(config)# monitor session 3
switch(config-monitor)# rate-limit 30
auto Automatically calculates the rate limit on a per gigabyte basis as follows:
destination bandwidth/aggregate source bandwidth.
1-100 Specifies the percentage of the maximum rate of SPAN packets that can be
sent out from each forwarding engine on a line card. The range is from 1 to
100.
Release Modification
5.2(1) This command was introduced.