Chapter 14 Quality of Service (QoS)

14.6 The Policer Setup Screen

A policer is a QoS policy.

Click QoS > Policer Setup to open the following screen. The P-870HN-51D can control ingress (or incoming) traffic by dropping packets that exceed the committed rate and/or committed burst size specified in this screen.

Figure 92 QoS > Policer

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 65 QoS > Policer Setup

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Add

Click this button to create a new policy.

 

 

No

This field displays the index number of the policy.

 

 

Active

Select the check box to enable the policy.

 

 

Name

This is the name of the policy.

 

 

Regulated

This shows to which classes the policy applies.

Classes

 

 

 

Meter Type

This shows the method that the P-870HN-51D uses for determining

 

which packets to pass, drop or mark (DSCP), whether it’s Simple

 

Token Bucket, Single Rate Three Color Meter or Two Rate Three

 

Color Meter. Refer to Section 14.8.2 on page 186 for information on

 

these meter types.

 

 

Parameter

Committed Rate - This shows the maximum committed rate for the

 

specified class/es.

 

Committed Burst Size - This shows the maximum committed burst

 

size for the specified class/es.

 

 

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