Bandwidth limit per host IP address in Cisco router

[Yahia CHARIF]

Hi All,

I need to controle the amount of bandwidth allocated for each host in a Cisco router without using the classic CBWFQ with ACL and Class-map for each host address.

Can someone please propose another solution.

Best regards.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

If your "router" was a 6500, you could consider using microflow policing, which doesn't require an ACL per host IP.

[Yahia CHARIF]

Thank you Joseph for you response.

Unfortunately we need this configuration in branch office routers like 881, 888, 1941 and 7200.

I don't think that MicroFlow is supported on this platforms.

[Julio E. Moisa]

Hi

I think the best approach is using Traffic shaping or police but it uses ACL.

[Yahia CHARIF]

Hi Julio,

I think it's a static way to do this and it's the better, but with a lot of sites and hosts it will not be easy to manage all the configurations.

I hope to find somthing that at lease minimise the need of statically define an Acl+class-map for each host in the network.

[Yahia CHARIF]

I got the confirmation from Cisco that there is only two ways to do the job:

• Use Web Security Appliance where we can deploy customized bandwidth and time quotas per user, per group and per policy
• Using the conventional method of matching the specific traffic and apllying policies based on class-maps

Hope these informations be helpful for you too. 

[Julio E. Moisa]

Thank you Yahia for the update, I have seen networks with appliances to restrict the bandwidth.

Have a good day

:-)