Limit traffic on a gigabit/optical port

[katerina.dardoufa]

We are facing the following problem. We have a gigabit/optical port on which we want to limit traffic. The port is configured as switchport. The only option about speed is "speed nonenegotiate". What can be a work around to this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Katerina

[Joseph W. Doherty]

What particular model device and installed IOS version?

[katerina.dardoufa]

cisco WS-C6513 (R7000) running "sup-bootdisk:s3223-ipbasek9_wan-vz.122-18.SXF8.bin"

[Joseph W. Doherty]

What kind of line card is the port on?

[katerina.dardoufa]

WS-SUP32-GE-3B

[Marvin Rhoads]

If you could upgrade your IOS to 12.2(25) or later, I believe you could use the "srr-queue bandwidth" command at the interface level.

Otherwise I believe it is necessary to use QoS/CoS features as described here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_tech_note09186a008015bf98.shtml

Hope this helps.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

See if this helps: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12.2SXF/native/configuration/guide/qos.html#wp1547950

[katerina.dardoufa]

Thank you all for your interesting links. I will have a look and hopefully find the solution. The thing is that since the switch is very critical and it's difficult to reload, upgrading the IOS is out of the question. So I have I find a solution in the links.

Thnx,

Katerina