You can configure rate-limit on a dialer interface.

For PPPoE connection, the dialer interface is the one throught which the
traffic is sent/recieved, hence the rate-limit should be configured on it.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Kingsley Charles <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> You need to configure rate-limit based on your link speed and the
> requirement.
>
> Let's say you are an ISP having 1544 Kbps link and you are poviding 256
> kbps for 6 users. To ensure that an user doesn't consume more than 256
> kbps,  you need prevent the user by some means.
>
> Hence you either configure rate limit inbound on the ISP side or outbound
> on the user side.
>
> rate-limit input 256000000 7000 4000 conform-action transmit exceed-action
> drop
>
>
>
>
>
> With regards
> Kings
>
>
>
>
>   On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Michael Davis <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>    Hi everyone – I have 2 questions about the legacy rate-limit command.
>>
>> 1.       How do we correctly calculate what the correct normal burst and
>> maximum (excess) burst setting should be?
>>
>> 2.       I know you should always apply the rate-limit or QOS service
>> policies to a physical interface, but I saw an ISP engineer apply the
>> rate-limit command to a dialer (pppoe) interface today.  Is this a
>> recommended practice?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michael
>>
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