Additional configuration examples, User/application fairness example, Additional configuration examples 457 – Nortel Networks WEB OS 212777 User Manual
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Chapter 17: Bandwidth Management
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Additional Configuration Examples
Examples are provided for the following Bandwidth Management applications:
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User/Application Fairness:
see next section
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Cookie-Based:
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User/Application Fairness Example
Bandwidth Management can be applied to prevent heavy bursters from locking out other users,
such as in preventing the following:
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Customers using broadband access (such as DSL) from blocking dial-up customers
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Customers from the same hosting facility locking out each other because of flash crowd
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FTP from locking out Telnet
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Rate limit particular applications
In the following example, BWM is configured to prevent broadband customers from affecting
dial-up customer access. This is accomplished by setting higher bandwidth policy rate limits
for the port processing broadband traffic.
1.
Select the first bandwidth policy.
Each policy must have a number from 1 to 64.
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Ensure BWM is enabled on the switch (
/cfg/bwm/on
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Set the hard, soft, and reserved rate limits for the bandwidth policy, in Mbps.
>> # /cfg/bwm/pol 1
(Select BWM policy 1)
>> Policy 1# hard 5
(Set “never exceed” rate)
>> Policy 1# soft 4
(Set desired bandwidth rate)
>> Policy 1# resv 3
(Set committed information rate)