Traffic shaping on 6509

[ashishpanda]

I have got a Catalyst 6509 switch with MSFC3 and IOS 12.2(18)SXD3.Can anyone suggest how to implement Layer2 traffic shaping in the MSFC.

[Prashanth Krishnappa]

Traffic Shaping is only supported on certain WAN modules for the Catalyst 6500/7600 series, such as the Optical Services Modules (OSMs) and FlexWAN modules.

You can use policing for ethernet interfaces/VLANs.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/102.html

[ashishpanda]

thanks Prashanth

This helped me alot.This document indicates policing in MSFC is done on IP.But can we implement policing on MAC basis? Because my setup is such that I have a firewall module operationg in routed mode. I create L2 VLANs in MSFC and map the same onto the firewall module.As traffic shaping/policing cant be done on the firewall module i have to do it on the MSFC. Can policing help limiting bandwidth on L2 VLANs in this scenario?

thanks again

Ashish

[ashishpanda]

can anyone suggest something for the above issue which can lead me in the right direction

regards

Ashish