Note: The Software Rate Shaping, Hardware Rate Shaping, and Quality of Service (QoS) features are mutually exclusive; that is, you can use only one of these features at any given time.


Create New Queue yes/no button: Creates a new hardware rate shaping queue for configuration. When you click the yes button, then click the Apply button, four fields display for configuration: Name, Bandwidth, Queue Type, and Priority. When you are done creating new queues, you can change this field setting to no to save screen space.


Editing Mode on/off button: Enables/Disables editing of fields for an existing hardware rate shaping queue.


Rate Rule Configuration link: Clicking on this link takes you to the hardware Rate Shaping Rules page.


Apply button: Applies the parameters on the current page to the running system. When you create a new fixed-rate queue, ConfigTool displays the remaining bandwidth.


Name (no space) field: A logical name for the hardware rate shaping queue.
Range: Alphanumeric characters (no spaces)

Bandwidth (Kbps) field: The rate to allocate to this hardware rate shaping queue. Values are rounded to 64K blocks.
Example: Entering 100K allocates 128K.
Options: Blocks of 64K.

Priority (variable only) menu: Priority level for this hardware rate shaping queue. This field applies to variable-rate queues only.
Options: high, medium (med), low

Existing rate queues field: Displays parameters for a previously-created hardware rate shaping queue.


Name field: Displays the name of a hardware rate shaping queue.


Active field: Displays whether the hardware rate shaping queue is enabled/disabled.


Bandwidth (Kbps) field: Displays the hardware rate queue allocation.


Queue Type field: Displays whether the hardware rate shaping queue is variable or fixed.


Priority field: Displays whether the variable hardware rate shaping queue has a high, medium, or low priority level.