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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.
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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.
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Editing Mode on/off button:
Enables/Disables editing of fields for an existing hardware rate shaping queue.
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Rate Rule Configuration link:
Clicking on this link takes you to the hardware Rate Shaping Rules page.
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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.
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Name (no space) field:
A logical name for the hardware rate shaping queue.
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Range: Alphanumeric characters (no spaces)
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Bandwidth (Kbps) field:
The rate to allocate to this hardware rate shaping queue. Values are rounded to 64K blocks.
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Example: Entering 100K allocates 128K.
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Options: Blocks of 64K.
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Priority (variable only) menu:
Priority level for this hardware rate shaping queue. This field applies to
variable-rate queues only.
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Options: high, medium (med), low
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Existing rate queues field:
Displays parameters for a previously-created hardware rate shaping queue.
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Name field:
Displays the name of a hardware rate shaping queue.
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Active field:
Displays whether the hardware rate shaping queue is enabled/disabled.
Bandwidth (Kbps) field:
Displays the hardware rate queue allocation.
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Queue Type field:
Displays whether the hardware rate shaping queue is variable or fixed.
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Priority field:
Displays whether the variable hardware rate shaping queue has a high, medium,
or low priority level.