Chapter 19 Policy

 

Table 43 Policy (continued)

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

Outgoing

Select Send the packet to the mirror port to sent the packet to the mirror port.

 

 

Select Send the packet to the egress port to send the packet to the egress port.

 

 

Select Send the matching frames (broadcast or DLF, multicast, marked for

 

 

dropping or to be sent to the CPU) to the egress port to send the broadcast,

 

 

multicast, DLF, marked-to-drop or CPU frames to the egress port.

 

 

Select Set the packet’s VLANID to set the VLAN ID of the packet with the value you

 

 

configure in the VLANID field.

 

Metering

Select Enable to activate bandwidth limitation on the traffic flow(s) then set the

 

 

actions to be taken on out-of-profile packets.

 

 

 

 

Out-of-profile

Select the action(s) to be performed for out-of-profile traffic.

 

Action

Select Drop the packet to discard the out-of-profile traffic.

 

 

Select Change the DSCP Value to replace the DSCP field with the value specified in

 

 

the Out-of-Profile DSCP field above.

 

 

Select Do not drop the matching frame previously marked for dropping to queue

 

 

the frames that are marked to be dropped.

 

 

 

 

Add

Click Add to inset the entry to the summary table below.

 

 

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to reset the fields back to your previous configuration.

 

 

 

 

Clear

Click Clear to set the above fields back to the factory defaults.

 

 

 

 

Index

This field displays the policy index number. Click an index number to edit the policy.

 

 

 

 

Active

This field displays Yes when policy is activated and No when is it deactivated.

 

 

 

 

Name

Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) for identification

 

 

purposes.

 

 

 

 

Classifier(s)

This field displays the name(s) of the classifier to which this policy applies.

 

 

 

 

Delete

Click Delete to remove the selected entry from the summary table.

 

 

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to clear the Delete check boxes.

 

 

 

19.3 Policy Example

The figure below shows an example Policy screen where you configure a policy to limit bandwidth and discard out-of-profile traffic on a traffic flow classified using the Example classifier (refer to Section 18.3 on page 130).

 

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