Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module Command Line Reference Guide 9.10(0.0)

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rate police

Police the incoming traffic rate on the selected interface.

Syntax

rate police [kbps] committed-rate [ burst-KB] [peak [kbps] peak-rate [ burst-KB]] [vlan vlan-id]

Parameters

kbps	Enter the keyword `kbps` to specify the rate limit in Kilobits per second (Kbps). Make the following value a multiple of 64. The range is from 0 to 40000000. The default granularity is Megabits per second (Mbps).
committed-rate	Enter the bandwidth in Mbps. The range is from 0 to 10000.
burst-KB	(OPTIONAL) Enter the burst size in KB. The range is from 16 to 200000. The default is 50.
peak peak-rate	(OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword `peak` then a number to specify the peak rate in Mbps. The range is from 0 to 10000.
vlan vlan-id	(OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword `vlan` then a VLAN ID to police traffic to those specific VLANs. The range is from 1 to 4094.

Defaults

Granularity for commited-rate and peak-rate is Mbps unless you use the kbps option.

Command Modes

INTERFACE

Supported Modes

Full–Switch

Command History

Version	Description
9.9(0.0)	Introduced on the FN IOM.
8.3.16.1	Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.

Usage Information

NOTE: Per port rate police is supported for Layer 2 tagged and untagged switched traffic and for Layer 3 traffic. Per VLAN rate police is supported on only tagged ports with Layer 2 switched traffic.

On one interface, you can configure the rate police command for a VLAN or you can configure the rate police command for an interface. For each physical interface, you can configure three rate police commands specifying different VLANS.

For each physical interface, you can configure three rate police commands specifying different VLANs.

Related Commands

rate-police — specifies traffic policing on the selected interface.