Dell Force10 MXL Blade - Rate Police

Quality of Service (QoS) | 463
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The dot1p-priority command changes the priority of incoming traffic on the interface. The system
places traffic marked with a priority in the correct queue and processes that traffic according to its
queue.
When you set the priority for a Port Channel, the physical interfaces assigned to the Port Channel are
configured with the same value. You cannot assign dot1p-priority command to individual interfaces in
a Port Channel.
rate police
Police the incoming traffic rate on the selected interface.
Syntax
rate police [kbps] committed-rate [burst-KB] [peak [kbps] peak-rate [burst-KB]] [vlan vlan-id]
Parameters
Defaults
Granularity for commit ed-rate and peak-rate is Mbps unless the kbps option is used.
Command Mode
INTERFACE
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On one interface, you can configure the rate police command for a VLAN or you can configure the rate
police command for an interface. For each physical interface, you can configure three rate police
commands specifying different VLANS.
After configuring VLANs in the rate police command, if this error message appears:
%Error: Specified VLANs overlap with existing config.
Version 8.3.16.1 Introduced on MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module
kbps
Enter this keyword to specify the rate police in Kilobits per second (Kbps). On
MXL Switch make the following value a multiple of 64. The default granularity is
Megabits per second (Mbps).
Range: 0 to 40000000 (Kbps)
committed-rate
Enter a number as the bandwidth in Mbps.
Range: 0 to 10000
burst-KB
(OPTIONAL) Enter a number as the burst size in KB.
Range: 16 to 200000
Default: 50
peak peak-rate (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword peak followed by a number to specify the peak
rate in Mbps.
Range: 0 to 10000
vlan vlan-id
(OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword vlan followed by a VLAN ID to police traffic to
those specific VLANs.
Range: 1 to 4094
Version 8.3.16.1 Introduced on MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module
Note: Per Port rate police is supported for Layer 2 tagged and untagged switched traffic and
for Layer 3 traffic. Per VLAN rate police is supported on only tagged ports with Layer 2
switched traffic.