Chapter 11 Configuring Quality of Service on the ML-Series Card

Configuring QoS

Table 11-2

Traffic Policy Commands (continued)

 

 

 

Command

 

Purpose

 

 

ML_Series (config-pmap-c)# bandwidth

Specifies a minimum bandwidth guarantee to a traffic class in periods of

{bandwidth-kbps percent percent}

congestion. A minimum bandwidth guarantee can be specified in kbps or

 

 

by a percentage of the overall available bandwidth.

 

 

Valid choices for the ML-Series cards are:

 

 

• Rate in kilobits per second

 

 

• Percent of total available bandwidth (1 to 100)

 

 

If multiple classes and bandwidth actions are specified in a single policy

 

 

map, they must use the same choice in specifying bandwidth (kilobits or

 

 

percent).

 

 

Note When using the bandwidth command, excess traffic (beyond the

 

 

configured commit) is allocated any available bandwidth in

 

 

proportion to the relative bandwidth commitment of its traffic

 

 

class compared to other traffic classes. Excess traffic from two

 

 

classes with equal commits has equal access to available

 

 

bandwidth. Excess traffic from a class with a minimum commit

 

 

might receive only a minimum share of available bandwidth

 

 

compared to excess bandwidth from a class with a high commit.

 

 

Note The true configurable bandwidth in kilobits per second is per port

 

 

and depends on how the ML-Series card is configured. The show

 

 

interface command shows the maximum bandwidth of a port (for

 

 

example, BW 100000 Kbit). The sum of all bandwidth and priority

 

 

actions applied to the interface, plus the cos priority-mcast

 

 

bandwidth, is not allowed to exceed the maximum bandwidth of

 

 

the port.

 

 

 

 

 

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