Velocity prediction for network devices

A computing system includes one or more processors and memory that includes instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to receive, by an networking device of a data interface of a computing environment, a command instruction that instructs the networking device to change state to a state corresponding with a requested state stored in a data store of a control interface of the computing environment. When implemented by the networking device, the command instruction causes the networking device to implement a network configuration option. The instructions also cause the processors to determine, by the networking device, whether the state information in the command instruction is valid by utilizing network heuristic based rules; and reject, by the networking device, the command instruction based on a determination that the state information is not valid.