Brocade Multi-Service IronWare QoS and Traffic Management Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 3)

Multi-Service IronWare QoS and Traffic Management Configuration Guide 1
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Contents
About This Document
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Supported software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Notes, cautions, and danger notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Getting technical help or reporting errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 1 Configuring Traffic Policing for the Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER
Traffic policing on Brocade NetIron CES and
Brocade NetIron CER devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Applying traffic policing parameters directly to a port. . . . . . . . . 1
Applying traffic policing parameters using a policy map. . . . . . . 2
Configuration considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Configuring traffic policing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Configuring a policy-map to remark profile tables. . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Configuring port-based traffic policing for inbound and outbound ports5
Using ACLs for filtering in addition to rate limiting. . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Displaying rate limiting policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Rate limiting BUM packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Limitations of the BUM rate limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configuring per-port rate limiting for BUM traffic . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Displaying BUM rate limit information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Displaying accounting information for the BUM rate limit . . . .12
Displaying BUM rate limit policies per interface . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Clearing accounting information for the BUM rate limit . . . . . . 14
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