Policy-Based Qos Configurations - Dell S3048-ON Configuration Manual

Rate shaping buffers, rather than drops, traffic exceeding the specified rate until the buffer is exhausted. If any stream exceeds the
configured bandwidth on a continuous basis, it can consume all of the buffer space that is allocated to the port.
• Apply rate shaping to outgoing traffic on a port.
INTERFACE mode
rate shape
• Apply rate shaping to a queue.
QoS Policy mode
rate-shape
Example of rate shape Command
Dell#configure terminal
Dell(conf)#interface gigabitethernet 1/1
Dell(conf-if-gi-1/1)#rate shape 500 50
Dell(conf-if-gi-1/1)#end

Policy-Based QoS Configurations

Policy-based QoS configurations consist of the components shown in the following example.
Figure 99. Constructing Policy-Based QoS Configurations
640 Quality of Service (QoS)