Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 71)

AT-S63 Management Software Menus User’s Guide
Section I: Basic Operations 71
Setting Up Rate Limiting
The rate limiting feature allows you to set the maximum number of ingress
packets the port accepts each second. Packets exceeding the threshold
are discarded. You can enable rate limiting and set a rate independently
for unknown unicast, multicast, and broadcast packets.
To set rate limiting, perform the following procedure:
1. From the Main Menu, type 1 to select Port Configuration.
The Port Configuration menu is shown in Figure 14 on page 58.
2. From the Port Configuration menu, type 1 to select Port Configuration.
The following prompt is displayed:
Enter port-list ->
3. Enter the number of the port to be configured.
The Port Configuration menu is shown in Figure 16 on page 61.
4. From the Port Configuration menu, type 5 to select Rate Limiting.
The Rate Limiting menu is shown in Figure 20.
Figure 20. Rate Limiting Menu
5. To control unknown unicast packets, do the following:
a. From the Rate Limiting menu, type 1 to toggle Unknown Unicast
Rate Limiting Status between Enabled and Disabled.
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Rate Limiting
Configuring Port 11
1 - Unknown Unicast Rate Limiting Status ... Disabled
2 - Unknown Unicast Rate ................... 262143 packets/second
3 - Multicast Rate Limiting Status ......... Disabled
4 - Multicast Rate ......................... 262143 packets/second
5 - Broadcast Rate Limiting Status ......... Disabled
6 - Broadcast Rate ......................... 262143 packets/second
R - Return to Previous Menu
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