Chapter 14 Bandwidth Control

14.2 Bandwidth Control Setup

Click Advanced Application > Bandwidth Control in the navigation panel to bring up the screen as shown next.

Figure 71 Advanced Application > Bandwidth Control

The following table describes the related labels in this screen.

Table 41 Advanced Application > Bandwidth Control

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

Select this check box to enable bandwidth control on the Switch.

 

 

Port

This field displays the port number.

*Settings in this row apply to all ports.

Use this row only if you want to make some settings the same for all ports. Use this row first to set the common settings and then make adjustments on a port-by-port basis.

 

Note: Changes in this row are copied to all the ports as soon as you make them.

 

 

Ingress Rate

 

 

 

Active

Select this check box to activate commit rate limits on this port.

 

 

Commit

Specify the guaranteed bandwidth allowed in kilobits per second (Kbps) for the incoming

Rate

traffic flow on a port. The commit rate should be less than the peak rate. The sum of commit

 

rates cannot be greater than or equal to the uplink bandwidth.

 

 

Active

Select this check box to activate peak rate limits on this port.

 

 

Peak Rate

Specify the maximum bandwidth allowed in kilobits per second (Kbps) for the incoming traffic

 

flow on a port.

 

 

Active

Select this check box to activate egress rate limits on this port.

 

 

Egress Rate

Specify the maximum bandwidth allowed in kilobits per second (Kbps) for the out-going traffic

 

flow on a port.

 

 

 

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