Broadcast, Multicast, and Flood Rate Limiting

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Broadcast,

You can define rate limits for broadcast, multicast, and flood packet types

Multicast, and

on the 36-port 10/100BASE-TX Desktop Switching Modules (Model

Flood Rate Limiting

Numbers 3CB9LF36RL and 3CB9LF36TL).

 

To participate in broadcast, multicast, and flood rate limiting, a

 

front-panel port must be configured for each rate limit packet type.

 

Front-panel ports that are not configured to participate in a particular

 

module rate limit packet type are unaffected by the associated module

 

limit for that packet type.

 

Flood-rate limits on unknown packets are applied to client egress frames.

 

A packet is unknown if the module has not learned the packet’s

 

destination address. An unknown packet that enters the module through

 

a front-panel port is forwarded out through the backplane port. An

 

unknown packet that enters the module through the backplane port is

 

flooded out through all active front-panel ports assigned to the same

 

VLAN as the arriving packet.

 

You can apply rate limits to the number of unknown flood packets that

 

are forwarded from the Gigabit backplane port to the participating

 

front-panel ports. Unknown packets that arrive at a front-panel port are

 

not forwarded to other front-panel ports and are only repeated through

 

the backplane port.

Module Packet-egressEgress rate limiting is on a module-wide basis only. To set packet-egress Rate Limiting limits for the module:

1From the bridge multicast menu, select the module limit for the specific packet type.

The possible packet types are:

■multicastLimit

■broadcastLimit

■floodLimit

2Enter the packet-egress limit.

This is the maximum rate at which the module can forward the selected packet type out through the participating front-panel ports. The range of permitted values is 0 – 16,777,216 frames per second (fps). The default value is 50,000 fps.

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3CB9LF36R, 3CB9LF36TL, 3CB9LF20R, 3CB9LF36RL, 3CB9LF36T specifications

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