This bandwidth command is at the highest level of three different locations where you can apply a bandwidth command in the scheduling hierarchy.

This bandwidth command defines the maximum values of the bandwidth commands that the lower levels can have. If you do not configure a bandwidth command for the QoS policy then the bandwidth at this level will default to the egress interface's line rate.

policy

This keyword exists for 'organizational' purposes only, to structure the configuration path for relevant command strings.

qos

This keyword exists for 'organizational' purposes only, to structure the configuration path for relevant command strings.

name <policy-name>

Specifies the name of a QoS policy.

shaper

This keyword exists for 'organizational' purposes only, to structure the configuration path for relevant command strings.

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 second
• gbps: Gigabytes (1000 megabytes) per second
• gi: Gibibits (1024 mebibits) per second
• kbit: Kilobits (1000 bits) per second
• kbps: Kilobytes (1000 bytes) per second
• ki: Kibibits (1024 bits) per second
• mbit: Megabits (1000 kilobits) per second
• mbps: Megabytes (1000 kilobytes) per second
• mi: Mebibits (1024 kibibits) per second
• %: Percentage of the total bandwidth