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Rate Limiting Configuration Screen
8-40 802.1p Configuration Menu Screens
Priority List
– bottom of screen
(Selectable)
Assign one or more priorities to the port being configured. The settings
available are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or ALL. When the Priority List is
highlighted, the SPACE bar is used to step to the priority, which must
be marked with an asterisk (*) using the M key. More than one priority
may be selected and marked for each port.
NOTE: If there are two entries for Inbound traffic with the same
Port number (for example, Port 2 and Port 2), you cannot assign
the same priority to both Port Inbound entries. This also holds
true for two entries for Outbound traffic on the same port.
The selected priorities can be cleared by stepping to each one and
pressing the M key.
For details on configuring a port, refer to Section 8.8.1.
Direction
– bottom of screen
(Toggle)
Toggle between Inbound and Outbound rate limiting. Inbound is the
default value. Up to four rate limit rules (entries) may be set per port,
two for Inbound and two for Outbound or any combination of the four
Inbound or Outbound. Inbound refers to traffic being received by the
SmartSwitch device and Outbound refers to traffic leaving the
SmartSwitch device.
Inbound configures the rate limit to drop frames when the traffic rate
(Kbps) received by the switch port exceeds the setting in the Max Rate:
Kbps field for a particular entry. If there are two or three priority port
entries set to Inbound, each entry functions independently. So, if the
Max Rate is exceeded in one entry, the frames in that entry are
dropped. However, if the traffic associated with another other entry on
the same port is transmitting within its maximum rate setting, the
frames on that port are not affected.
Outbound functions the same as the Inbound, except that the port is
configured to drop frames when the traffic rate (Kbps) out of the port
exceeds the setting in the Max Rate: Kbps field for a particular entry.
Table 8-10 Rate Limiting Configuration Screen Field Descriptions (Continued)
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