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QoS Commands
Service Meter QoS Policy Commands
meter
Syntax meter meter-id [multipoint] [create]
no meter meter-id
Context config>qos>sap-ingress
Description This command creates the context to configure an ingress service access point (SAP) QoS policy
meter.
This command allows the creation of multipoint meters. Only multipoint meters can receive ingress
packets that need flooding to multiple destinations. By separating the unicast for multipoint traffic at
service ingress and handling the traffic on separate multipoint meters special handling of the multi-
point traffic is possible. Each meter acts as an accounting and (optionally) policing device offering
precise control over potentially expensive multicast, broadcast and unknown unicast traffic. Only the
back-end support of multipoint traffic (between the forwarding class and the meter based on forward-
ing type) needs to be defined. The individual classification rules used to place traffic into forwarding
classes are not affected. Meters must be defined as multipoint at the time of creation within the policy.
The multipoint meters are for multipoint-destined service traffic. Within non-multipoint services, such
as Epipe services, all traffic is considered unicast due to the nature of the service type. Multicast and
broadcast-destined traffic in an Epipe service will not be mapped to a multipoint service meter.
When an ingress SAP QoS policy with multipoint meters is applied to an Epipe SAP, the multipoint
meters are not created.
Any billing or statistical queries about a multipoint meter on a non-multipoint service returns zero
values. Any meter parameter information requested about a multipoint meter on a non-multipoint ser-
vice returns the meter parameters in the policy. Multipoint meters would not be created for non-multi-
point services.
The no form of this command removes the meter-id from the SAP ingress QoS policy and from any
existing SAPs using the policy. Any forwarding class mapped to the meter, will revert to their default
meters. When a meter is removed, any pending accounting information for each SAP meter created
due to the definition of the meter in the policy is discarded.
Parameters meter-id — The meter-id for the meter, expressed as an integer. The meter-id uniquely identifies the
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meter within the policy. This is a required parameter each time the meter command is executed.
Values 1 — 32
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