Multicast Rate Limiting - Brocade Communications Systems Converged Enhanced Ethernet 8000 Administrator's Manual

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Multicast rate limiting

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Enabling an Ethernet PFC
To enable Ethernet PFC, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode.
1. Enter global configuration mode.
2. Specify the 10-gigabit Ethernet interface.
3. Enable trust mode on the interface.
4. Enable an Ethernet PFC on the interface.
5. Enter the copy command to save the running-config file to the startup-config file.

Multicast rate limiting

Multicast rate limiting provides a mechanism to control multicast frame replication and cap the
effect of multicast traffic.
Multicast rate limit is applied to the output of each multicast receive queue. Rate limits apply
equally to ingress receive queueing (first level expansion) and egress receive queueing (second
level expansion) since the same physical receive queues are utilized. You can set policies to limit
the maximum multicast frame rate differently for each traffic class level and cap the total multicast
egress rate out of the system.
Multicast rate limiting includes the following features:
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Creating a receive queue multicast rate-limit
To create the receive queue multicast rate-limit, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC
mode.
1. Enter global configuration mode.
2. Create a lower maximum multicast frame expansion rate. In this example, the rate is to 10000
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Both ends of a link must be configured identically for Ethernet Pause or Ethernet Priority Flow
Control because they are incompatible.
switch#configure terminal
switch(config)#interface tengigabitethernet 0/2
switch(conf-if-te-0/2)#qos trust cos
switch(conf-if-te-0/2)#qos flowcontrol pfc 3 tx on rx on
switch(config)#do copy running-config startup-config
All configuration parameters are applied globally. Multicast rate limits are applied to multicast
receive queues as frame replications are placed into the multicast expansion queues. The
same physical queues are used for both ingress receive queues and egress receive queues so
rate limits are applied to both ingress and egress queueing.
Four explicit multicast rate limit values are supported, one for each traffic class. The rate limit
values represent the maximum multicast expansion rate in packets per second (PPS).
switch#configure terminal
PPS.
switch(config)#qos rcv-queue multicast rate-limit 10000 burst 5000
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