[c-nsp] Limit traffic for each PC

[Jeff Kell]

Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:
> Bartosz Piec <> wrote on Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:58 PM:
>>Krishnan Kuppuraj napisał(a):
>>>Yeah, you may have to create two separate ACL's [one for each PC] and
>>>define /Traffic-Shape Group /in Router's Ethernet/VLAN  Port.
>>
>>But the number of PCs in my network is above 40. Will the router be
>>able to manage with that number of ACLs?
> 
> this might not scale. To do this on a larger scale without performance overhead, you need a feature called Per-user Microflow Policing. To my knowledge, this is currently only available on the Cat6k/Sup720 scaling up to several thousands of "PC's" (i.e. addresses).
> I think there is also a new product doing much more than this, don't know the details.

If you want hard limits, have you tried storm-control on the ports?

Jeff