Nokia – Alcatel Lucent SAR-8 7705 Port Utilization

I'm quite sure there is no such command or feature in TiMOS. The one way you can emulate such behavior is with a static blackhole-route, a prefix-list and a policy-statement. It's not what you asked but still pretty decent. Sample configuration:

configure router
    static-route 0.0.0.0/0 black-hole
    static-route ::/0 black-hole
    policy-options
        prefix-list "default-only"
            prefix 0.0.0.0/0 exact
            prefix ::/0 exact
        exit
        policy-statement "default-originate"
            entry 10
                from
                    protocol static
                    prefix-list "default-only"
                    family ipv4 ipv6
                exit
                action accept
                exit
            exit
            default-action next-policy
        exit

Now you can apply that policy as an export policy in BGP group level before your normal export policy.

edit: Of course advertising default to your CE device without knowing if you have upstream connectivity could be considered as poor design. One way to enhance the configuration above is to make prefix-list of known dynamically learned prefixes from your network (or internet) and make those static blackhole routes conditional. This can be achieved with prefix-list <name> [all|none] parameter in the static-route context. By default, logical OR is used.

User Teun Vink is very correct in his assertion that context is required, mainly in the platform that you are using and the configuration that the rate is being applied to, whether QoS or service utilization. Nevertheless, here is some basic information:

CIR is your committed rate, which is the desired bandwidth of a service. It is not an indication of maximum, but a reservation of minimum bandwidth on the available interfaces the services is built. In an Alcatel-Lucent service router, the CIR is measured in kbps. As an example, if you have a 10gbps port and your services' CIR is 1048576, then your service has reserved all 1gbps of the port. If you then also have 10gbps of services mapped through that port without a CIR, then the service at 1gbps will always have 1gbps available to it, while all of the other traffic will be buffered and delayed in favor of that traffic. Most boxes will not allow you to provision a CIR that is higher than the maximum bandwidth capacity of a given port, though.

Assuming that you are using an Alcatel-Lucent service router in the 7xxx range of products, then the rate is a measurement of maximum kbps. The individual who applied "rate 10000" was probably trying to map the service for 10mbps, not realizing that our world of telecommunications and computing exists in base 16. The true measurement of 10mbps would be 10240kbps.