I have a router with several workstations running on the switched ports. I need to limit their WAN bandwidth. I tried to use rate-limit
on Vlan1
, but it looks like it had no effect. What is the easiest way to achieve this? I am not very good at Cisco configuration.
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Best Answer
There are several ways to limit bandwidth on a Cisco Router and i'll try to mention most of the options below. My example shows how to limit
FastEthernet0
to 7 Mbit.The interface has a 100Mb/s bidirectional communication maximum. You can take that down to 10Mb/s at the physical/electrical level by setting the speed to 10Mb/s, using:
Of course, that is not what you want, but i just wanted to mention it. Please be advised, that many bandwidth shapers are outbound only.
Option 1 CAR (committed access rate)
Option 2 (Policing via MQC)
I would recommend using MQC, as this is hardware only and very effective.
Option 3 (Generic Traffic Shaping--less draconian, but outbound only)
Option 4 (mqc based traffic shaping--less draconian, but outbound only)