
Port Traffic Controls
All-Traffic Rate-Limiting for the 5300xl, 3400cl and 6400cl Switches
tion, an outbound interface can become oversubscribed by traffic
received from multiple ICMP rate-limited interfaces. In this case, the
actual rate for traffic on the rate-limited interfaces may be lower than
configured because the total traffic load requested to the outbound inter-
face exceeds the interface’s bandwidth, and thus some requested traffic
may be held off on inbound.
■ Optimum Rate-Limiting Operation: Optimum rate-limiting occurs with
64-byte packet sizes. Traffic with larger packet sizes can result in perfor-
mance somewhat below the configured inbound bandwidth. This is to
ensure the strictest possible rate-limiting of all sizes of packets.
■ Heavy Memory Usage: Combinations of intensive QoS, rate-limiting,
and/or IDM ACL service demands on a switch can impose heavy memory
usage on the switch’s dynamic hardware rule processor, and can some-
times result in slower system performance. In such cases, moving support
for some of the service load to other devices can improve performance.
■ Outbound Traffic Flow: Configuring ICMP rate-limiting on an interface
does not control the rate of outbound traffic flow on the interface.
■ Traffic Filters on Rate-Limited Interfaces: Configuring a traffic filter
on an interface does not prevent the switch from including filtered traffic
in the bandwidth-use measurement for either type of rate-limiting (ICMP
or all). That is, where rate-limiting and traffic filtering are configured on
the same interface, the inbound, filtered traffic is included in the band-
width measurement for calculating when the limit has been reached.
Traffic filters include:
• ACLs
• Source-Port filters
• Protocol filters
• Multicast filters
■ Determining the 5300xl Switch Port Number Used in ICMP Port
Reset Commands To Enable Excess ICMP Traffic Notification
Traps and Event Log Messages: Use the internal port numbers
described in this section with the setmib command described on page 17.
The port number included in the command corresponds to the internal
number the switch maintains for the designated port, and not the port’s
external (slot/number) identity. To match the port’s external slot/number
to the internal port number, use the walkmib ifDescr command, as shown
in the following figure:
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