Network traffic can be a drag especially when you absolutely must load that page already. To solve this problem, our sights now zeroes in on the functions of Cisco router.

Cisco Systems is an American company that specializes in networking devices along with other electronic devices. They are now currently sheltered in California where they are making billions of money annually through their inventive and advanced products.

Their routers have been coined the best countless times. Its reliability surely cannot be undermined which is why it is often used by many large businesses and corporation. But the question is, does this have the ability to limit network traffic? With these few simple steps, it can:

Step 1: You should enable Cisco Express Forwarding first. This is not unique to Cisco. Other routers also have CEF but most of them are on default settings still. Go to the global configurations mode and you will be prompted with command codes. Make sure you key “Router# config t” first and then press enter. On the next line, key in ” Router(config)# ip cef”. Press enter again and key in “Router(config)#”.

Step 2: Afterwards, you need to formulate an Access Control List. This will allow you to access the traffic you primarily want to limit. Go to the resources page and find Configuration commands for limiting traffic. You can use the command (Config-acl) when you use the global configurations.

Step 3: Modify committed access rate. Allocate bandwidth amount to the source of the traffic. Here is the proper syntax for that “rate-limit {input | output} [access-group [rate-limit] acl-index] bps burst-normal burst-max conform-action action exceed-action action”. Just key this in the interface.

Step 4: You also need to familiarize yourself with Cisco-language. Refer to the manual and find out the meaning of the words, “access group”, input and output and the rate limit. This will allow you to understand the syntax better.

Step 5: Refer to the global configurations page every time you want to monitor traffic. Do changes in the syntax and the parameters to those you want to limit network traffic. This should help you out a lot.

Monitoring traffic is the easiest way of preventing network overloading. Sometimes, unnecessary traffic gets in your system and prevents optimum router performance. You can filter traffic and only allow the important ones to gain access. Once you become more familiar with the commands and syntax, this will get easier.