Configuring Rate Limiting and Sharing of Excess Bandwidth on Multiservices PICs

On Multiservices PICs, you can limit the transmit rate of a logical interface (lsq-) in the same way as other types of queuing PICs. You can also assign a percentage of the excess bandwidth to the logical interfaces. As with other types of PICs, the strict-high queue (voice) can “starve” low and medium priority queues. To prevent the strict-high queue from starving other queues, rate-limit the queue.

To rate-limit logical interfaces on a Multiservices PIC, include the transmit-rate statement with the rate-limit option at the [edit class-of-service schedulers scheduler-name] hierarchy level:

You can also make the excess strict-high bandwidth available for other queues. You can split the excess bandwidth among multiple queues, but the total excess bandwidth assigned to these queues can only add up to 100 percent. The excess-bandwidth priority statement option is not supported on the Multiservices PIC. For more information about excess bandwidth sharing, see Configuring Excess Bandwidth Sharing on IQE PICs.

To share excess bandwidth among Multiservices PICs, include the excess-rate statement at the [edit class-of-service schedulers scheduler-name] hierarchy level.

Both of these rate-limiting and excess bandwidth sharing features apply to egress traffic only, and only for per-unit schedulers. Hierarchical schedulers and shared schedulers are not supported.

You must still complete the configuration by configuring the scheduler map and applying it to the Multiservices PIC interface.