Configuring Rate Limiting

In this section:

1. Configuring Port-Based Fixed Rate Limiting
   Follow these steps to configure a rate limiting policy for a port.
2. Configuring Port-Based Fixed Rate Limiting with Burst Option
   Follow these steps to configure a rate limiting policy for a port with a burst size included.
3. Configuring Rate Limiting for BUM Traffic
   If high rates of traffic are being received by the device on a given port of that VLAN, you can limit the number of BUM packets or bytes received each second on that port.
4. BUM Suppression Port Dampening
5. Configuring ACL-Based Fixed Rate Limiting Using Traffic Policies
   Use the procedure in this section to configure ACL-based fixed rate limiting.
6. Configuring ACL-Based Adaptive Rate Limiting Using Traffic Policies
   You can configure adaptive rate limiting to forward traffic, modify the IP precedence of and then forward traffic, or drop traffic based on whether the traffic is within the limit or exceeds the set limit.