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shaping-rate
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Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 9.3 for EX Series switches.
Description
Configure shaping rate to throttle the rate at which queues transmit packets.
We recommend that you configure the shaping rate as an absolute maximum usage and not as additional usage beyond the configured transmit rate.
Default
If you do not include this statement, the default shaping rate is 100 percent, which is the same as no shaping at all.
Options
percentpercentage —Shaping rate as a percentage of the available interface bandwidth.
Range: 0 through 100 percent
rate—Peak rate, in bits per second (bps). You can specify a value in bits per second either as a complete decimal number or as a decimal number followed by the abbreviation k (1000), m (1,000,000), or g (1,000,000,000).
Range: 3200 through 32,000,000,000 bps
(EX4300 switches only) 8000 through 160,000,000,000 bps
Required Privilege Level
interface—To view this statement in the
configuration.
interface-control—To add this
statement to the configuration.
