Solved: Switching and bandwidth

moses12315 · ‎03-02-2011

I have 2 switches connected via Trunk Link 10/100 Base-T Ethernet. The first switch is 4507R series and the second 2950 series.

For test reasons we would like to reduce the real bandwidth of this trunk link to 256K.

Is there an easy way to do it.

Moses

IAN WHITMORE · ‎03-02-2011

You can use QoS. You will need to create policy maps and then apply them to the interfaces. You can use the police command to limit traffic but only in increments of 1Mbps. Of course traffic that exceeds the limit you put is dropped...it's not shaped to 1Mbps for example.

You can check the command reference for this (see below the reference for the 2950):

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2950/software/release/12.1_22_ea11x/command/reference/cli1.html#wpmkr4345773

If you're new to QoS you got some reading to do

Regards,

Ian

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IAN WHITMORE · ‎03-02-2011

You can use QoS. You will need to create policy maps and then apply them to the interfaces. You can use the police command to limit traffic but only in increments of 1Mbps. Of course traffic that exceeds the limit you put is dropped...it's not shaped to 1Mbps for example.

You can check the command reference for this (see below the reference for the 2950):

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2950/software/release/12.1_22_ea11x/command/reference/cli1.html#wpmkr4345773

If you're new to QoS you got some reading to do

Regards,

Ian

moses12315 · ‎03-02-2011

Thanks Ian, I took the message.

Moses

IAN WHITMORE · ‎03-02-2011

If you have any doubts after reading we will be glad to help.

Regards,

Ian