[c-nsp] Policing VLANs on a trunk

chris stand cstand141 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 10:30:36 EDT 2011


>   5. Policing VLANs on a trunk (Graham Beneke)

> I have been doing some reading and googling and I've ended up more
> confused than where I started...
>
> Can someone point me to a good reference doc (specifically for the 6500
> platform)?
>
> We have a Metro Ethernet service from a local provider and we are
> running a dot1q trunk over it. What I'm trying to do is to rate-limit
> the two VLANs on the trunk so that neither one can consume the full
> capacity of the circuit. The VLANs don't terminate on a local SVI so I
> suspect that this may not actually work.
>
> --
> Graham Beneke

You don't say why you wish to do this so can I ask why you would care ?
If there is capacity on a pipe let it it filled up in the sequence
packets arrive.
Now if there is some sort of QOS requirements for voice perhaps ...

??



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