Setting up rate limiting – Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 6: Port Parameters

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Section I: Basic Features

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 26 on page 106.

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 you want to configure.

The Port Configuration menu is shown in Figure 27 on page 107.

4. From the Port Configuration menu, type 5 to select Rate Limiting.

The Rate Limiting menu is shown in Figure 31.

Figure 31. Rate Limiting Menu

5. Type 1 to toggle Unknown Unicast Rate Limiting Status between

Enabled and Disabled.

6. Type 2 to select Unknown Unicast Rate.

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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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