RE: [nsp] throttle BW on one port of Catalyst 3524XL

From: Dave (dave@hawk-systems.com)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 21:49:03 EDT


we have a 100mb ethernet feed into this rack, router/L3 switches belong to IDC,
and don't want this machine to pick up something and start pumping out 100mb of
worms.

have implemented what you suggested in the interim... reconfiguring a 2600 to
place in the rack to solve this more eloquently.

Dave

>-----Original Message-----
>From: kevin graham [mailto:kgraham@dotnetdotcom.org]
>Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 9:22 PM
>To: Dave VanAuken
>Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [nsp] throttle BW on one port of Catalyst 3524XL
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>> Have an NT box going on our network, wish to throttle the FastEthernet
>> port that it is on to 1mb max. Have set "bandwidth 1000" in the
>> interface config... can I assume that is sufficient to allow it a
>> maximum of 1mb bi-directional bandwidth?
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>As has already been mentioned, 'bandwidth NUM' isn't going to help you.
>Your best hope is to force the port to 10-hdx, though it might be worth
>considering why it is you want to choke this machine off so heavily and if
>there's an router or featureful L2 device somewhere between it and
>whatever resource you're concerned about.
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>..kg..
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