[c-nsp] Catalyst 6524 rate limit per port/vlan

Mohammad Khalil eng_mssk at hotmail.com
Mon May 30 21:19:52 EDT 2011


Hi 

i am facing the same issue with Cisco ME3750
and the traffic i want to limit is the outbound traffic

> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 23:34:20 +0200
> From: paveldimow at gmail.com
> To: mtinka at globaltransit.net
> CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Catalyst 6524 rate limit per port/vlan
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> thank you for your suggestion. I still can't figure out whats so
> specific and difficult about egress rate limit?
> Everyone seams to offer ingress rate limit but egress is very rare and
> results vary.
> 
> 
> Maybe someone from Cisco can shed a little light on this? :)
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net> wrote:
> > On Saturday, May 21, 2011 05:32:24 AM Pavel Dimow wrote:
> >
> >> I'am thinking of using CAT6524 as access switches for our
> >> pure l2vpn customers. I have started reading about rate
> >> limiting capabilities of those switches but it I can't
> >> find a way to do a per port or per vlan rate limit. With
> >> MQC I can limit the speed in inbound but not in outbound
> >> direction. Is there any better way to do it? I don't
> >> understand what is the problem with
> >> outbound rate limit for Cisco (and Juniper) switches? Is
> >> it architecture or something else and how come that
> >> there is no problem for rate limit on routers (even the
> >> smallest one).
> >
> > I would look at Cisco's ME3600X/3800X for this deployment. I
> > wouldn't waste my time on an ME6524, given the capabilities
> > and price of the ME3600X/3800X.
> >
> > Note that egress policing in this platform is not yet
> > available in the software (but the hardware is built to
> > support it). This should be out towards the end of 2011.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark.
> >
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