General switch administration using the Command Line Interface
183
Enabling rate-limiting
The percentage of multicast traffic, or broadcast traffic, or both, can be
limited using the CLI. For details, see the following sections:
•
"show rate-limit command" (page 183)
•
"rate-limit command" (page 183)
•
"no rate-limit command" (page 184)
•
"default rate-limit command" (page 184)
show rate-limit command
The
show rate-limit
command displays the rate-limiting settings and
statistics.
The syntax for the
show rate-limit
command is
show rate-limit
Run the
show rate-limit
command in Privileged EXEC command
mode.
rate-limit command
The
rate-limit
command configures rate-limiting on the port.
The syntax for the
rate-limit
command is
rate-limit [port <portlist>] {multicast <pct> | broadcast
<pct> | both <pct>}
Run the
rate-limit
command in Interface Configuration command mode.
"Rate-limit parameters" (page 183)
describes the parameters for this
command.
Rate-limit parameters
Parameters and
values
Description
port <portlist>
Specify the port numbers to configure for rate-limiting.
Enter the port numbers to configure.
Note: If you omit this parameter, the system uses the
port number you specified in the
interface
command.
multicast <pct> |
broadcast <pct> |
both <pct>
Apply rate-limiting to the type of traffic. Enter an integer
from 1 to 10 to set the rate-limiting percentage:
•
multicast: Apply rate-limiting to multicast packets.
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 4500 Series
Overview — System Configuration
NN47205-500
02.01
Standard
5.0
23 February 2007
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