Configuring Qos For Ethernet; Overview; Rate Limiting; Configuring Rate Limiting On An Ethernet Interface - HP 7102dl - ProCurve Secure Router Configuration Manual

Setting Up Quality of Service

Configuring QoS for Ethernet

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Configuring QoS for Ethernet
The ProCurve Secure Router allows you to apply rate limiting and QoS to
Ethernet interfaces. These QoS mechanisms affect traffic passed through the
router to the LAN.

Overview

You can configure these QoS mechanisms on Ethernet interfaces:

rate limiting

outbound QoS policies
You must enable rate limiting in order to apply a QoS map to the Ethernet
interface.
Rate Limiting
Rate limiting helps maintain QoS when traffic transits across connections of
varying bandwidth. For example, an Ethernet interface may pass traffic at 100
Mbps to a device that can forward it at only 10 Mbps. The second device will
be forced to queue and finally drop many of these packets.
Rate limiting traffic passing through the Ethernet interfaces minimizes the
number of packets the router ultimately drops.

Configuring Rate Limiting on an Ethernet Interface

Move to the Ethernet interface configuration mode context. Set the maximum
bandwidth that the Ethernet interface will transmit with this command:
Syntax: traffic-shape rate <bps>
You can set the bandwidth between 1000 and 100,000,000 bps (100 Mbps).