Document Outline

• Contents
  • Audience
  • Supported hardware and software
    • Supported software
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting
    • Notes, cautions, and danger notices
  • Notice to the reader
  • Related publications
  • Getting technical help or reporting errors
• Configuring Traffic Policing for the Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER
  • Traffic policing on Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER devices
    • Applying traffic policing parameters directly to a port
    • Applying traffic policing parameters using a policy map
    • Configuration considerations
    • Configuring traffic policing
    • Configuring a policy-map to remark profile tables
    • Configuring port-based traffic policing for inbound and outbound ports
    • Using ACLs for filtering in addition to rate limiting
    • Displaying rate limiting policies
  • Rate limiting BUM packets
    • Limitations of the BUM rate limit
    • Configuring per-port rate limiting for BUM traffic
    • Displaying BUM rate limit information
    • Displaying accounting information for the BUM rate limit
    • Displaying BUM rate limit policies per interface
    • Clearing accounting information for the BUM rate limit
• Configuring Traffic Policing for the Brocade NetIron XMR and Brocade MLX series
  • Traffic policing on the Brocade device
    • Applying traffic policing parameters directly to a port
    • Applying traffic policing parameters using a policy map
    • Configuration considerations
    • Configuring traffic policing on Brocade devices
    • Using ACLs for filtering in addition to rate limiting
    • Configuring for no priority-based traffic policing
    • Configuring rate limiting for Copied-CPU-bound traffic
    • Displaying rate limiting policies
  • IPv6 ACL-based rate limiting
    • IPv6 ACL based rate-limiting configuration considerations
    • IPv6 ACL based rate-limiting command options
    • Configuration Sequence
    • Configure inbound rate-limiting on an interface
    • Configure outbound rate-limiting on an interface
    • Configure strict-ACL rate-limiting on the interface
    • Deleting an IPv6 Access-List which is bound to rate-limit
    • Configuring rate-limit using non-existing access-list
    • Output of show commands to verify output
    • Clearing rate-limit counters
  • Layer 2 ACL-based rate limiting
    • Configuration rules and notes
    • Editing a Layer 2 ACL Table
    • Define rate limiting parameters
    • Binding Layer 2 ACL-based rate limiting policy to a port
    • Specifying rate limiting parameters without a policy map
    • Display accounting
    • Rate limiting protocol traffic using Layer 2 inbound ACLs
    • Example of Layer 2 ACL to rate limit broadcast traffic
  • Rate limiting ARP packets
    • Configuring rate limiting of ARP packets
    • Displaying statistics for ARP rate limiting
    • Clearing Statistics for ARP Rate Limiting
• Configuring Quality of Service (QoS) for the Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER Series
  • Quality of Service (QoS)
    • QoS model
    • Packet QoS attributes
  • Ingress Traffic processing through a device
    • Recognizing inbound packet priorities and mapping to internal priority
  • Forcing the priority of a packet
    • ACL QoS Considerations
    • Custom decode support
  • Forcing the drop precedence of a packet
  • Configuring QoS
    • Configuring QoS procedures applicable to Ingress and Egress
    • Configuring a force priority
    • Configuring extended-qos-mode
    • Configuring port-level QoS commands on LAG ports
    • Configuring port-level QoS commands on CPU ports
  • Displaying QoS information
    • Displaying QoS Configuration information
    • Clearing the QoS packet and byte counters
  • Scheduling traffic for forwarding
    • Configuring traffic scheduling
  • Egress port and priority based rate shaping
    • Example of configuring Prioritized Voice over Data
    • Clearing traffic manager statistics
    • Network processor counters displayed
    • Multicast queue size, flow control, rate shaping and egress buffer threshold
    • Ingress traffic shaping per multicast stream
    • Implementation considerations
    • Configuring multicast traffic policy maps
    • Binding multicast traffic policy maps
    • Configuration example for rate shaping IPTV multicast stream
    • Tuning multicast parameters
• Configuring Quality of Service for the Brocade NetIron XMR and Brocade MLX series
  • Ingress Traffic processing through a device
    • Recognizing inbound packet priorities and mapping to internal priority
  • Creating an Ingress decode policy map
  • Forcing or merging the priority of a packet
  • Forcing or merging the drop precedence of a packet
  • Egress Traffic processing exiting a device
  • Creating an egress encode policy map
  • Backward compatibility with pre-03.8.00
    • Commands deprecated in version 03.8.00
    • qos-tos trust and qos-tos mark commands
    • DSCP-priority mapping commands
  • Default QoS mappings
  • Protocol Packet Prioritization
    • Enhanced control packet prioritization
  • Configuring QoS
    • Configuring Ingress QoS procedures
    • Configuring Egress QoS procedures
    • Configuring QoS procedures applicable to Ingress and Egress
    • Configuring Ingress decode policy maps
    • Binding Ingress decode policy maps
    • Configuring a force priority
    • Configuring Egress encode policy maps
    • Binding an Egress encode EXP policy map
    • Enabling a port to use the DEI bit for Ingress and Egress processing
    • Specifying the trust level and enabling marking
    • Packet mapping commands
    • Configuring support for super aggregate VLANs
    • Configuring port-level QoS commands on LAG ports
  • Displaying QoS information
    • Displaying QoS configuration information
    • Displaying QoS packet and byte counters
  • Weighted Random Early Discard (WRED)
  • Configuring packet drop priority using WRED
    • Displaying the WRED configuration
  • Scheduling traffic for forwarding
    • Configuring traffic scheduling
  • Egress port and priority based rate shaping
    • Multicast queue size, flow control, rate shaping and egress buffer threshold
    • Ingress traffic shaping per multicast stream
    • Implementation considerations
    • Configuring multicast traffic policy maps
    • Binding multicast traffic policy maps
    • Configuration example for rate shaping IPTV multicast stream
  • Traffic manager statistics display
    • Displaying all traffic manager statistics for a device
    • Displaying traffic manager statistics for a port group
    • Displaying traffic manager statistics for an interface module
    • Displaying traffic manager statistics for NI-MLX-10Gx8-M and NI-MLX-10Gx8-D modules
    • Displaying traffic manager statistics for the 4x10G module
    • Displaying traffic manager statistics for the 20x1G module
    • Displaying traffic manager statistics for IPTV multicast queue
    • Clearing traffic manager statistics
    • New network processor counters displayed for packets to and from traffic manager
  • QoS for NI-MLX-1Gx48-T modules
    • Limitations on TM ports
    • Configuring priority queues from 8 to 4
  • Aggregated TM VOQ statistics collection
    • Supported modules
    • Configuring aggregated TM VOQ statistics collection
    • Enabling aggregated TM VOQ statistics collection
    • Displaying TM statistics from one queue or all queues
    • Displaying TM statistics from the multicast queue
    • Showing collected aggregated TM VOQ statistics
    • Clearing the TM VOQ statistics
    • Displaying TM VOQ depth summary
    • Displaying TM buffer utilization
    • Clearing TM VOQ depth summary
    • Clearing TM buffer utilization
  • Displaying QoS packet and byte counters
  • QoS commands affected by priority queues
    • Priority-based rate shaping
    • Weighted Random Early Discard (WRED)
    • Weighted-based scheduling and mixed strict priority
    • Error messages for CPU copy queue and traffic manager statistics
    • CPU copy queue
    • Traffic manager statistics
  • Enhanced buffer management for NI-MLX-10Gx8 modules and NI-X-100Gx2 modules
    • Enhanced Packet Buffer Management
    • Displaying buffer-pool information
    • Configuring Virtual Output Queue (VOQ) queue size
  • Commands
• Hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS)
  • Hierarchical QoS (HQoS) for 8x10G modules
    • How HQoS works
    • HQoS Components
    • Supported deployment models
    • Configuring HQoS
    • Displaying HQoS information
    • Clearing HQoS statistics
    • Sample configurations
    • Scheduler and queue policy configuration templates
    • HQoS queue scheduler models
    • QoS Queue Types
    • HQoS Queue Schedulers - Customer Traffic