Ingress Policer and Port Rate Limiter

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

Feature

Product

Release introduced

Platform specific considerations for QoS behavior are documented in QoS Behavior Differences, which is in VOSS User Guide.

Egress port shaper

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

VSP 4450 Series

VSP 4000 4.0

VSP 4900 Series

VOSS 8.1

VSP 7200 Series

VOSS 4.2.1

VSP 7400 Series

VOSS 8.0

VSP 8200 Series

VSP 8200 4.0

VSP 8400 Series

VOSS 4.2

VSP 8600 Series

VSP 8600 4.5

XA1400 Series

Not Supported

Ingress dual rate port policers

5420 Series

Not Supported

5520 Series

Not Supported

VSP 4450 Series

VSP 4000 4.0

VSP 4900 Series

Not Supported

VSP 7200 Series

Not Supported

VSP 7400 Series

Not Supported

VSP 8200 Series

Not Supported

VSP 8400 Series

Not Supported

VSP 8600 Series

VSP 8600 4.5

XA1400 Series

Not Supported

Ingress policer and port rate limiter

5420 Series

VOSS 8.5

5520 Series

VOSS 8.5

VSP 4450 Series

Not Supported

VSP 4900 Series

VOSS 8.5

VSP 7200 Series

Not Supported

VSP 7400 Series

VOSS 8.5

VSP 8200 Series

Not Supported

VSP 8400 Series

Not Supported

VSP 8600 Series

Not Supported

XA1400 Series

Not Supported

QoS ingress port rate limiter

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

VSP 4450 Series

Not Supported

VSP 4900 Series

VOSS 8.1

VSP 7200 Series

VOSS 4.2.1

VSP 7400 Series

Not Supported

VSP 8200 Series

VSP 8200 4.0

VSP 8400 Series

VOSS 4.2

VSP 8600 Series

Not Supported

XA1400 Series

VOSS 8.1.50

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 is dropped.

The traffic rate accepted by the specified ingress port is limited. The port drops or re-marks violating traffic. The line rate of the port is the maximum rate that can be configured.

The ingress policer and port rate limiter 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: