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 Rule yes/no button: Creates a new hardware rate shaping rule for configuration. When you click the yes button, then click the Apply button, seven fields display for configuration: Name, Source/MaskLen, Dest/MaskLen, IPproto, Rate Queue, SPort/Mask, and DPort/Mask.
Default: no

Edit Mode on/off button: Enables/Disables editing of fields for an existing hardware rate shaping rule.
Default: off

Apply button: Applies the parameters on the current page to the running system.


Rate Queue Configuration link: Clicking on this link takes you to the hardware Rate Shaping Queues page.


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

Source/MaskLen field: The source IP address and (optional) mask length.
Example: 192.45.20.45/24

Dest/MaskLen field: The destination IP address and (optional) mask length.
Example: 192.45.20.50/24

IPproto field: The IP protocol of the hardware rate shaping queue this rule is to be associated with.
Options: TCP, UDP

Rate Queue field: The name of the hardware rate shaping queue this rule is to be associated with.


SPort/Mask field: The TCP/UDP source port and mask of the hardware rate shaping queue this rule is to be associated with.


DPort/Mask field: The TCP/UDP destination port and mask of the hardware rate shaping queue this rule is to be associated with.


Existing rules field: Displays parameters for a previously-created hardware rate shaping rule.


Name field: Displays the name of the hardware rate shaping rule.


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


Queue field: Displays the hardware rate shaping queue the rule is associated with.


Bandwidth(Kbps) field: Displays the bandwidth allocated to an existing hardware rate shaping queue. Values are rounded to 64K blocks.


Src/Mask field: Displays the source IP address and mask for an existing hardware rate shaping queue.


SPort/Mask field: Displays the TCP/UDP source port for an existing hardware rate shaping rule.


Dest/Mask field: Displays the destination IP address and mask for an existing hardware rate shaping rule.


DPort/Mask field: Displays the TCP/UDP destination port for an existing hardware rate shaping rule.


IPproto field: Displays whether the IP protocol is TCP or UDP for an existing hardware rate shaping rule.


Order field: Displays the priority order for the existing hardware rate shaping rule. Rule order is global. You should specify rules so that a more specific rule has a lower rule order (that is, a higher priority) than a more general rule.