Configuration Considerations - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

The credit size is calculated using the following algorithm.
One second is divided into 64,453 intervals. In each interval, the number of bytes equal to the
credit size is added to the running total of the class. The running total of a class represents the
number of bytes that can be allowed to pass through without being subject to rate limiting.
The second parameter is the maximum credit total, which is also measured in bytes. The maximum
credit total is calculated using the following algorithm.
The running total can never exceed the maximum credit total. When packets arrive at the port, a
class is assigned to the packet, based on the rate limiting policies. If the running total of the class is
less than the size of the packet, then the packet is dropped. Otherwise, the size of the packet is
subtracted from the running total and the packet is forwarded. If there is no traffic that matches
rate limiting criteria, then the running total can increase until it reaches the maximum credit total.

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Credit = (Average rate in bits per second)/(8*64453)
Maximum credit total = (Maximum burst in bits)/8
Except for port-based rate limiting policies, all rate limiting policy types can be applied only to
inbound ports on the device.
Only one type of inbound rate limiting can be applied on a physical port. For example, you
cannot apply inbound port-and-ACL-based and inbound port-based rate limiting policies on the
same port.
Outbound port-based rate limiting policy can be combined with any type of inbound rate
limiting policy.
Any VLAN-based rate limiting can limit only tagged packets that match the VLAN ID specified in
the policy. Untagged packets are not subject to rate limiting.
The minimum configurable rate limiting rate in the device is 20,345 bps. The maximum
configurable rate limiting rate is near line-rate.
Control packets are not subject to rate limiting.
Trunks with rate-limiting on their physical members is configurable where all the ports inherit
the rate-limiting policy.
The device currently only support "strict" and "destination-weighted" scheduling schemes. (qos
scheduler ..) on the 16x10G card.
Certain features such as FDP, CDP, UDLD and LACP that make the port run in dual mode can
cause traffic to be rate limited to less than the expected requested rate. When the port is in
dual-mode, all incoming or outgoing packets are treated as tagged. An extra 4 bytes is added
to the length of the packet to account for the tag, thus causing the requested rate to be less
than the expected requested rate. Ports in dual mode are assumed to be tagged ports for rate
limiting purpose.
The CAM can hold up to 1024 ACL, PBR, and Rate Limiting entries and this maximum is divided
as follows:
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ACL – 416 entries
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Rate Limiting – 416, entries shared with PBR
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Port-based and VLAN-based rate limiting policies consume one CAM entry per policy.
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