About the Author: Calin is a network engineer, with more than 8 years of experience in designing, installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining large enterprise WAN and LAN networks. Currently he's Cisco (CCNA, CCNP, CCIP) and Linux (LPIC) certified and working to obtain CCIE certification.

Limit traffic on a Cisco switch L2 port with minimal configuration


Let’s say that somebody (or some task in a test) ask you to limit the inbound traffic on a switch Layer 2 port by using minimal configuration possible. I must say that in the first steps I failed this task miserable, but actually is very simple to do it.

I will use a plain layer 2 Cisco 2950 switch for this task. I observed that I could not implement this on a Cisco 3500XL. I don’t know if the IOS image was wrong, but I didn’t investigate too much in that area as I cannot stand 3500XL switches and they are actually pretty old piece of hardware.

No topology is needed for this as I will only show how to do it and not testing it with real traffic. I will do testing later when I’ll have some more time, or you can do it on your own.

See the tutorial below:

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