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Disabling ingress rate limiting – Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

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Disabling Ingress Rate Limiting

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the portCfgQos --resetratelimit command.

portcfgqos --resetratelimit [slot/]port

Example of disabling Ingress Rate Limiting on slot 3, port 9

portcfgqos --resetratelimit 3/9

QoS

Quality of Service (QoS) allows you to categorize the traffic flow between a host and a target as having
a high, medium, or low priority.

Fabric OS supports two types of prioritization:

• Class-Specific Control (CS_CTL)-based frame prioritization

Each frame between a host and a target is assigned a specific priority, depending on the value of the
CS_CTL field in the frame header.

• QoS zone-based traffic prioritization

All traffic between a host and a target is assigned a specific priority, depending on the name you define
for the QoS zone.

CS_CTL-based frame prioritization and QoS zone-based traffic prioritization are mutually exclusive. If
you enable CS_CTL-based frame prioritization on F_Ports or FL_Ports, then QoS zone-based traffic
prioritization cannot be used between any devices connected to the F_Ports or FL_Ports.

CS_CTL-based frame prioritization takes precedence over QoS zone-based traffic prioritization. If you
enable CS_CTL-based frame prioritization on F_Ports or FL_Ports that are defined in a QoS zone,
CS_CTL-based frame prioritization takes precedence over the QoS zones.

The following table shows a basic comparison between CS-CTL-based frame prioritization and QoS
zone-based traffic prioritization. Refer to

CS_CTL-based frame prioritization

on page 378 and

QoS

zone-based traffic prioritization

on page 381 for detailed information about each type of prioritization

scheme.

Comparison between CS_CTL-based and QoS zone-based prioritization

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CS_CTL-based frame prioritization

QoS zone-based traffic prioritization

Must be manually enabled.

Automatically enabled.

No zones are required.

Requires you to create QoS zones.

Enabled on F_Ports or FL_Ports.

Enabled on E_Ports.

Takes precedence over QoS zone-based traffic prioritization. Is overridden by CS_CTL-based frame prioritization.

Priority is defined by CS-CTL field in frame header.

Priority is defined by name of QoS zone.

Prioritization is on a frame-basis.

Prioritization is on a flow-basis.

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