Brocade Multi-Service IronWare QoS and Traffic Management Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 4)

2 Multi-Service IronWare QoS and Traffic Management Configuration Guide
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Chapter 2 Configuring Traffic Policing for the Brocade NetIron XMR and Brocade MLX series
Traffic policing on the Brocade device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Applying traffic policing parameters directly to a port. . . . . . . . 16
Applying traffic policing parameters using a policy map. . . . . . 17
Configuration considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Configuring traffic policing on Brocade devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using ACLs for filtering in addition to rate limiting. . . . . . . . . . .25
Configuring for no priority-based traffic policing . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Configuring rate limiting for Copied-CPU-bound traffic . . . . . . .26
Displaying rate limiting policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
IPv6 ACL-based rate limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
IPv6 ACL based rate-limiting configuration considerations . . .29
IPv6 ACL based rate-limiting command options . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Configuration Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Configure inbound rate-limiting on an interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configure outbound rate-limiting on an interface . . . . . . . . . . .32
Configure strict-ACL rate-limiting on the interface. . . . . . . . . . .33
Deleting an IPv6 Access-List which is bound to rate-limit . . . .33
Configuring rate-limit using non-existing access-list . . . . . . . . .34
Output of show commands to verify output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Clearing rate-limit counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Layer 2 ACL-based rate limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Configuration rules and notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Editing a Layer 2 ACL Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Define rate limiting parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Binding Layer 2 ACL-based rate limiting policy to a port . . . . . .36
Specifying rate limiting parameters without a policy map . . . .36
Display accounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Rate limiting protocol traffic using Layer 2 inbound ACLs . . . . 37
Example of Layer 2 ACL to rate limit broadcast traffic . . . . . . . 37
Rate limiting ARP packets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Configuring rate limiting of ARP packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Displaying statistics for ARP rate limiting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Clearing Statistics for ARP Rate Limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
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Chapter 3 Configuring Quality of Service (QoS) for the Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER
Series
Quality of Service (QoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
QoS model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Packet QoS attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Ingress Traffic processing through a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Recognizing inbound packet priorities and mapping
to internal priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Forcing the priority of a packet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
ACL QoS Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Custom decode support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Forcing the drop precedence of a packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46