ZyXEL Communications Plumbing Product metrogigabit switch User Manual

 Chapter 21 Policy Rule

MGS3700-12C User’s Guide

To view a summary of the classifier configuration, scroll down to the summary 
table at the bottom of the Policy screen. To change the settings of a rule, click a 
number in the Index field.

Figure 104   Advanced Application > Policy Rule: Summary Table 

Outgoing

Select Send the packet to the mirror port to send the packet to the 
mirror port. 

Select Send the packet to the egress port to send the packet to the 
egress port. 

Metering

Select Enable to activate bandwidth limitation on the traffic flow(s) then 
set the actions to be taken on out-of-profile packets. 

Out-of-profile 
action

Select the action(s) to be performed for out-of-profile traffic. 

Select Drop the packet to discard the out-of-profile traffic. 

Select Change the DSCP value to replace the DSCP field with the value 
specified in the Out of profile DSCP field. 

Select Set Out-Drop Precedence to mark out-of-profile traffic and drop 
it when network is congested.

Select Do not drop the matching frame previously marked for 
dropping to queue the frames that are marked to be dropped.

Add

Click Add to inset the entry to the summary table below and save your 
changes to the Switch’s run-time memory. The Switch loses these changes 
if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the top navigation 
panel to save your changes to the non-volatile memory when you are 
done configuring.

Cancel

Click Cancel to reset the fields back to your previous configuration.

Clear

Click Clear to set the above fields back to the factory defaults.

Table 57   Advanced Application > Policy Rule  (continued)