Configuring Control Plane Policing
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Finding Feature Information
Your software release may not support all the features documented in this module. For the latest feature
information and caveats, see the release notes for your platform and software release.
Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco software image support.
To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not
required.
Restrictions for Control Plane Policing
The following restrictions apply while Configuring Control Plane Policing:
• Only six among the following protocols can be configured simultaneously: rip, ospf-v6, eigrp-v6,
• For ospf, eigrp and ripv2 protocols, control packets which are destined to multicast Mac of the router
Control Plane Policing
Configure the Control Plane Policing (CoPP) feature on a predefined set of protocols to control the flow of
traffic coming to the CPU. The CoPP allows you to set a rate limit on specific protocol packets. These packets
are policed, and the packets that conform to the defined rate limit are permitted into the CPU. COPP protects
Finding Feature Information, page 1517
Restrictions for Control Plane Policing, page 1517
Control Plane Policing, page 1517
Configuring Control Plane Policing, page 1518
Examples: Configuring CoPP, page 1520
rip-v6, dhcp-snoop-client-to-server, dhcp-snoop-server-to-client, ndp-router-solicitation,
ndp-router-advertisement, ndp-redirect, dhcpv6-client-to-server, dhcpv6-server-to-client, igrp.
are policed along with the "reserve-multicast-group" option.
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