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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Command Reference—Release8.1
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Chapter2 Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and ROM Monitor Commands set security acl feature ratelimit
set security acl feature ratelimit
To specify a rate limit for the number of packets that are sent to the CPU on a global basis, use the set
security acl feature ratelimit command.
set security acl feature ratelimit rate
Syntax Description
Defaults The rate is 500 pps.
Command Types Switch command.
Command Modes Privileged.
Usage Guidelines The rate limiting option might be shared by multiple features. To display the features sharing rate
limiting, enter the show security acl feature ratelimit command.
To specify the rate limit for the number of ARP inspection packets that are sent to the CPU on a per - port
basis, use the set port arp-inspection command.
For ARP inspection and 802.1x DHCP, the minimum permitted rate is 1 pps. If you want to disable rate
limiting, enter a rate argument of 0.
Examples This example shows how to set the global rate limit to 600:
Console> (enable) set security acl feature ratelimit 600
ARP Inspection global rate limit set to 600 pps.
Console> (enable)
This example shows how to disable rate limiting:
Console> (enable) set security acl feature rate-limit 0
CAUTION: Dot1x DHCP and ARP Inspection global rate limit is disabled.
2003 Apr 07 07:13:36 %ACL-4-ARPINSPECTRATELIMITDISABLED:Dot1x DHCP and ARP Inspection
global rate is disabled
Console> (enable)
Related Commands set po rt arp-inspection
show security acl feature ratelimit
rate Number of packets; valid values are from 0 to 1000 packets per second. See the
“Usage Guidelines” section for more information.