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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Command Reference—Release8.4
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Chapter2 Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and ROM Monitor Commands set rate-limit
The software allocates an LTL index for the frames.
The LTL index is submitted to the forwarding engine for ag gregate rate limit ing of all the associated
frames.
The Layer 2 control packets are as follows:
GVRP/GMRP
802.1X
BPDUs
CDP/DTP/PAgP/UDLD/LACP/VTP PDUs
PVST/SSTP PDUs
Examples This example shows how to enable Layer 2 rate limiting for PDUs:
Console>(enable) set rate-limit l2pdu enable
Layer 2 rate limiter for PDUs enabled on the switch.
Console>(enable)
This example shows how to enable Layer 2 rate limiting for port security:
Console> (enable) set rate-limit l2port-security enable
l2port-security rate limiter enabled.
Console> (enable)
This example shows how to disable Layer 2 rate limiting for protocol tunnel-encapsulated PDUs:
Console>(enable) set rate-limit l2protocol-tunnel disable
Layer 2 rate limiter for l2protocol-tunnel disabled on the switch.
Console>(enable)
This example shows how to set the Layer 2 rate limiter value for PDUs:
Console>(enable) set rate-limit l2pdu rate 1000
Layer 2 rate limiter for PDU rate set to 1000.
Console>(enable)
This example shows how to set the Layer 2 rate limiter value for port security:
Console> (enable) set rate-limit l2port-security rate 10000
l2port-security rate limiter rate set to 10000 pps.
Console> (enable)
Related Commands show rate-limit