Ingress Policer and Port Rate Limiter

Table 1. Port-Based Rate Limiting, Policing, and Shaping product support

Feature

Product

Release introduced

Egress port shaper

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

5720 Series

Fabric Engine 8.7

7520 Series

Fabric Engine 8.10

7720 Series

Fabric Engine 8.10

VSP 4900 Series

VOSS 8.1

VSP 7400 Series

VOSS 8.0

Ingress policer and port rate limiter

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

5420 Series

VOSS 8.5

5520 Series

VOSS 8.5

5720 Series

Fabric Engine 8.7

7520 Series

Fabric Engine 8.10

7720 Series

Fabric Engine 8.10

VSP 4900 Series

VOSS 8.5

VSP 7400 Series

VOSS 8.5

QoS ingress port-based rate limiter

5320 Series

Not Supported

5420 Series

Not Supported

5520 Series

Not Supported

5720 Series

Not Supported

7520 Series

Not Supported

7720 Series

Not Supported

VSP 4900 Series

VOSS 8.1

VSP 7400 Series

Not Supported

Ingress policer and port rate limiter functionality handles congestion, meters traffic, and takes action based on the ACL filter rules. A policer can be attached directly to an ACL ACE entry to perform flow-based rate limiting. You can configure the service rate and peak rate. All traffic that qualifies for a filter is metered. Every packet that exceeds the service rate is marked as yellow, and every packet that exceeds the peak rate is marked as red and drops. The line rate of the port is the maximum rate that you can configure.

The ingress policer and port rate limiter feature is available on the following interfaces:
  • Ingress port (inPort)
  • Ingress VLAN (inVLAN)
  • Ingress VSN (inVSN)

Operation Considerations

The following section describes operational considerations for ingress policer and port rate limiter functionality: