Alcatel Unleashed

Hello Everyone,

I'm in the process of deploying an Alcatel 6850E stack in a remote site that will have connectivity to the main office via an 100mbps AT&T Opt-E-Man connection.

The telco handoff is a 1Gbps optical connection to the the stack's interface 1/1.

Is there any way to configure the switch such that when I am using something like Solarwinds' Real-Time Bandwith Monitor and tracking usage on 1/1, it will report back that the connection is 100mbps, and not 1Gbps?

Thanks in advance,

John

I had opened a ticket with Alcatel support, and was asked to invoke the following commands:

qos port 1/1 maximum egress-bandwidth 100 mbps
qos port 1/1 maximum ingress-bandwidth 100 mbps
qos enable
qos apply
show qos ports

(6850)# show qos port 1/1

(Output truncated)

Ingress Egress
----+-------+-----
100M 100M
(6850)#

The only caveat is that an application like Solarwinds' Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor will still report the physical interface as being 1 Gbps.

interfaces 1/1 duplex full
interfaces 1/1 speed 100
Interface on other side with a bit of luck shows then 100Full with autonegotiation.
Interface on your side

Setting one side to 100 full while the other is autosensing may work, but nowaday often gives 100/half as Standard requires -> Set both sides to 100 full