[c-nsp] Limit traffic for each PC

[Richard Gallagher]

Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:
> Jeff Kell <mailto:jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote on Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:15 PM:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> right, if the closet switch connecting to each individual PC is sophisticated enough, one could apply per-port policing there..
> 
> 	oli

In addition cat4k with SupV supports UBRL (user based rate-limiting)

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00803671bd.html#wp1327746

Rich