Technical Documentation

policer

Syntax

policer policer-name {filter-specific;if-exceeding {bandwidth-limit bps;bandwidth-percent percentburst-size-limit bytes;} then { policer-action;}}

Hierarchy Level

[edit firewall][edit logical-systems logical-system-name firewall]

Release Information

Statement introduced before Junos OS Release 7.4.

Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 9.0 for EX Series switches.

Logical systems support introduced in Junos OS Release 9.3.

Description

Configure policer rate limits and actions. To activate a policer, you must include the policer action modifier in the then statement in a firewall filter term. Each policer that you configure includes an implicit counter. To ensure term-specific packet counts, you configure a policer for each term in the filter that requires policing.

Options

policer-name—Name that identifies the policer. The name can contain letters, numbers, hyphens (-), and can be up to 64 characters long.

The remaining statements are explained separately.

Required Privilege Level

firewall—To view this statement in the configuration.
firewall-control—To add this statement to the configuration.


Published: 2010-06-22

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