What is the input rate limit/max on a vlan interface?

[mckneely1]

  Vlan1, as shown in the output below, is getting close to 1 Gbps and i'm worried that it will start to drop packets.  I know that physical interfaces have a speed limit of 100 or 10000 but what is the limit of a virtual interface (vlan1)?

6509E_1#sh int vlan1

Vlan1 is up, line protocol is up

  Hardware is EtherSVI, address is 001e.498f.3800 (bia 001e.498f.3800)

  Internet address is 10.30.0.10/16

  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,

     reliability 255/255, txload 27/255, rxload 143/255

  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set

  Keepalive not supported

  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

  Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never

  Last clearing of "show interface" counters 29w0d

  Input queue: 0/75/319965/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0

  Queueing strategy: fifo

  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)

  5 minute input rate 920757000 bits/sec, 100733 packets/sec

  5 minute output rate 109690000 bits/sec, 69695 packets/sec

  L2 Switched: ucast: 38127819259 pkt, 34815805864441 bytes - mcast: 211929687 pkt, 24160555629 bytes

  L3 in Switched: ucast: 284774661762 pkt, 288770895469933 bytes - mcast: 0 pkt, 0 bytes mcast

  L3 out Switched: ucast: 207676756187 pkt, 55103932658430 bytes mcast: 0 pkt, 0 bytes

     284980720796 packets input, 288794501667563 bytes, 0 no buffer

     Received 183946216 broadcasts (8820452 IP multicasts)

     0 runts, 0 giants, 2552 throttles

     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored

     207770123124 packets output, 55118868952804 bytes, 0 underruns

     0 output errors, 0 interface resets

     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

[Jose Solano]

Hi,

You can infer that the SVI rate is 1gig by looking to the bandwidth and delay vales, normally for 1gig interfaces you will see this:

#sh int gi 1/11 | i DLY

MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec

And according to your output the SVI has the same bandwidth and delay that a physical 1gig port which are the default values assing to the physical ports.

6509E_1#sh int vlan1

Vlan1 is up, line protocol is up

  Hardware is EtherSVI, address is 001e.498f.3800 (bia 001e.498f.3800)

  Internet address is 10.30.0.10/16

  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,

Hope this helps.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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There shouldn't be any (by default) bandwidth limit on a VLAN interface.

A VLAN interface's in and out bandwidth would be the aggregate of all the interfaces (on same device) that are part of the VLAN.