Alloy Computer Products GSM-8T16SFP - Manual (Page 46)

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3-4. Bandwidth
The Bandwidth Management function of the GSM series of switches is used to limit the
bandwidth a port may use when sending or receiving data. When limiting received data you can
limit the bandwidth on a particular type of data, including all Traffic or Multicast and Broadcast
Traffic.
When you click on the bandwidth menu on the left hand side a screen will appear with all ports
being displayed with their current Bandwidth settings. To configure each individual ports
bandwidth characteristics, highlight the port and click the Edit button on the bottom of the screen.
Fig. 3-18
Function Name:
Bandwidth Management
Function Description:
The Bandwidth Management function is used to limit the ingress (Incoming) and Egress
(Outgoing) bandwidth for each port.
Parameter Description:
Port Number:
Displays the current port that is being configured, this will depend on the port that
was highlighted before the Edit button was pressed.
All Traffic for Ingress Rate Limiting (Policing):
Is used to set up the limit of Ingress bandwidth the port is allowed to utilise
before traffic will be discarded. If the data exceeds the limit you have set all traffic
will be discarded. Pause frames are also generated to stop the discarding of
packets if Flow Control is enabled. The Ingress Rate Limiting will limit all data
including unicast, broadcast and multicast traffic. Valid range is 0 ~ 1000.
Default State: Disable