Bandwidth shaping on 6506

[jlawan]

Our network consists of 2 TIs for internet connectivity, a class B flat network, a firewall, and a Cat. 6506 switch w the MSFC. There are many outgoing ftp traffics to the internet that slow down other traffic. Any suggestion what to do to redesign this network, I don't intend to eliminate the ftp traffic. Thanks,

Jacky

[bsivasub]

Since typical egress policing or shaping is not supported on the 6500 LAN interfaces. You can try to police in the inbound vlan for outgoing traffic originate to a certain bandwidth. You have to remember ftp is TCP and hence you need to watch out for the burst size defintion, otherwise your FTP will not get good throughput.

[jlawan]

Thank you for your reply. Can you include a related cisco link so I can read further and help me in my 6506 configuration. Thanks again.

Jacky

[jakechin]

Hi,

Try this for your 6506 qos config

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/sw_6_3/confg_gd/qos.htm

Jake