4.7.4 Traffic Control

Traffic control is to set the following items

1.Broadcast storm filtering control: if enabled, each port start to drop broadcast packets after a continuous received broadcast packets count up to 64. It will be back to normal if no more broadcast packet is received in 800ms or any non- broadcast packet is received.

2.IP multicast packet flow control: if enabled, the system will drop IP multicast packets under a congestion condition. Otherwise, the packet will be forwarded to non-congested ports.

3.Broadcast packet flow control: if enable, the system will drop broadcast packets under a congestion condition. Otherwise, the broadcast packet will be forwarded to non-congested ports.

Again, please reload the settings from the switch before starting to do new configurations.

4.7.5 VLAN Setup

A VLAN is simply a configured broadcast domain. An administrator applies VLAN to separate a network. VLAN Setup provides administers abilities to set up port-based and tag-based Vlan. The page is shown as figure 4.21.

An administrator could refer the following to add a VLAN

1.Choose VLAN type, port-based or tag-based VLAN.

2.Assign VLAN id, if you choose tag-based VLAN.

3.Click or to assign port members.

4.Click Add VLan to add a Vlan, and then Vlan Table will show it.

5.Repeat step 1 through 4, if need to create another Vlan.

6.Click Apply and then Vlan configuration will take effect.

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