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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Command Reference—Release 8.4
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Chapter 2 Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and ROM Monitor Commands
set rate-limit
• The software allocates an LTL index for the frames.
• The LTL index is submitted to the forwarding engine for aggregate rate limiting of all the associated
frames.
The Layer 2 control packets are as follows:
• GVRP/GMRP
• 802.1X
• BPDUs
• CDP/DTP/PAgP/UDLD/LACP/VTP PDUs
• PVST/SSTP PDUs
Examples This example shows how to enable Layer 2 rate limiting for PDUs:
Console>(enable) set rate-limit l2pdu enable
Layer 2 rate limiter for PDUs enabled on the switch.
Console>(enable)
This example shows how to enable Layer 2 rate limiting for port security:
Console> (enable) set rate-limit l2port-security enable
l2port-security rate limiter enabled.
Console> (enable)
This example shows how to disable Layer 2 rate limiting for protocol tunnel-encapsulated PDUs:
Console>(enable) set rate-limit l2protocol-tunnel disable
Layer 2 rate limiter for l2protocol-tunnel disabled on the switch.
Console>(enable)
This example shows how to set the Layer 2 rate limiter value for PDUs:
Console>(enable) set rate-limit l2pdu rate 1000
Layer 2 rate limiter for PDU rate set to 1000.
Console>(enable)
This example shows how to set the Layer 2 rate limiter value for port security:
Console> (enable) set rate-limit l2port-security rate 10000
l2port-security rate limiter rate set to 10000 pps.
Console> (enable)
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