topic RE: Controlling egress and ingress bandwidth on Exos switches in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

Controlling egress and ingress bandwidth on Exos switches

PatrickB — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:26:00 GMT

I've been researching how to control bandwidth with any newer version of Exos and looks like egress is simple with the configure rate-limit xx port x out drop
command but didn't find any ingress. I did find a post about creating a policy to match all then meter xx bandwidth for outbound. I wonder if this is the best way or only way and does the cpu take a hit on this kind of traffic. I will be using 5520 switches and need about 20 different drops rate-limited in a data center.
Anyone have any other recommendations? or caveats?
Thanks in Advance!
Patrick

RE: Controlling egress and ingress bandwidth on Exos switches

Ronald_Dvorak — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 22:54:00 GMT

I've found the below thread about the topic...

How do I configure ingress and egress rate-limiting traffic?

-Ron

RE: Controlling egress and ingress bandwidth on Exos switches

PatrickB — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:43:00 GMT

Ronald,

Thanks for the reference. I found that and set it up but don't know if I need to create separate meters for each link or can I share the meter and use it on multiple ports? I don't want to share the bandwidth for example have 5 ports with 10M meter each.

Let me know what you think?

Thanks,

Patrick