Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Configuration Manual page 85

Configuring Policing
Argument
conform
exceed
violate
Note For information on the color-aware police command arguments, see the "Configuring Color-Aware Policing"
section.
Although all the arguments in the table above are optional, you must specify a value for cir. In this section,
cir indicates its value but not necessarily the keyword itself. The combination of these arguments and the
resulting policer types and actions are shown in the next table.
Table 22: Policer Types and Actions from Police Arguments Present
Police Arguments Present
cir, but not pir, be, or violate
cir and pir
cir and pir
The policer actions that you can specify are described in the following two tables.
Table 23: Policer Actions for Exceed or Violate
Action
drop
Configuring 1-Rate and 2-Rate, 2-Color and 3-Color Policing
Description
Single action to take if the traffic data rate is within
bounds. The basic actions are transmit or one of the
set commands listed in the table below (Policer
Actions for Conform). The default is transmit.
Single action to take if the traffic data rate is exceeded.
The basic actions are drop or markdown. The default
is drop.
Single action to take if the traffic data rate violates
the configured rate values. The basic actions are drop
or markdown. The default is drop.
Policer Type
1-rate, 2-color
1-rate, 3-color
2-rate, 3-color
Description
Drops the packet. This action is available only when
the packet exceeds or violates the parameters.
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Policer Action
≤ cir, conform; else violate
≤ cir, conform; ≤ pir, exceed; else
violate
Note You must specify
identical values for cir
and pir.
≤ cir, conform; ≤ pir, exceed; else
violate
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