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3.2.4 RATE CONTROL
Rate control is a form of flow control used to enforce a strict bandwidth limit at a port. User can program separate
transmit (Egress Rule) and receive (Ingress Rule) rate limits at each port, and even apply the limit to certain packet
types.
The description of the columns is as below:
TERMS
DESCRIPTION
Packet Type
Select the packet type that wanted to filter.
Ingress
The packet types of the Ingress Rule listed here include
Broadcast Only
/
Broadcast and multicast
/
Broadcast,
Multicast and Unknown Unicast
or
All
.
Egress
The packet types of the Egress Rule (outgoing) only support
all
packet types.
Rate (Ingress & Egress)
Default value Ingress: 8 Mbps
Default value Egress: 0 Mbps (
0 stands for disabling the rate
control for the port.
)
Valid values are from 1Mbps-100Mbps for fast Ethernet ports
and gigabit Ethernet ports. The step of the rate is 1 Mbps.
Click on
Submit
to apply the configuration.