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Inbound Rate Limiting on Cisco Catalyst Switches

If you need to limit the inbound bandwidth of a switch port on a Cisco Catalyst, the key is in the QoS configuration. Rather than going into an depth discussion of QoS and how it works, let’s skip that (check out Cisco’s QoS site for that level of detail) and jump into the configuration details. This particular configuration...
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How would you limit the bandwidth on a switch port?

Edit: this configuration doesn’t seem to be that simple, because it’s not working very well on my 3560 now. Edit #2: It turns out everything works as stated, except for the minor fact that the command slows your interface down. Go into interface configuration mode, on the port you are making changes on. switch(config-if)#srr-queue bandwidth ? limit Configure bandwidth-limit for this interface...
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