policy action name <action-group-name> police bandwidth <limit>
Controls the definition of the policing rule for bandwidth, for packets that Vyatta NOS directs to the action group that you specify.
policy- This keyword exists for 'organizational' purposes only, to structure the configuration path for relevant command strings.
action- This keyword exists for 'organizational' purposes only, to structure the configuration path for relevant command strings.
name <action-group-name>- The name of a QoS action group.
police- This keyword exists mainly for 'organizational' purposes, to structure the configuration path for relevant command strings. However, it also introduces some additional bandwidth or rate limit restrictions on packets that the system identifies by the match rule that you specify elsewhere in the command string.
bandwidth <limit>The maximum bandwidth. Vyatta uses a 'maximum bandwidth' model of QoS, rather than a 'guaranteed bandwidth' model.
Depending on your QoS configuration, you can set a maximum bandwidth limit for a shaper, profile or traffic class.
- To define the limit with the default units of kilobits per second, you may use a number only.
- To define the limit with other units, use a number plus a suffix. No space. For example:
10mbit;40%.
Vyatta NOS supports these suffixes:
- No suffix: Kilobits (1000 bits) per second
gbit: Gigabits (1000 megabits) per secondgbps: Gigabytes (1000 megabytes) per secondgi: Gibibits (1024 mebibits) per secondkbit: Kilobits (1000 bits) per secondkbps: Kilobytes (1000 bytes) per secondki: Kibibits (1024 bits) per secondmbit: Megabits (1000 kilobits) per secondmbps: Megabytes (1000 kilobytes) per secondmi: Mebibits (1024 kibibits) per second%: Percentage of the total bandwidth