Dell 3548 manual Enabling Storm Control

The following is an example of the CLI commands:

console(config)# interface port-channel 2 console(config-if)#no negotiation console(config-if)#speed 100 console(config-if)#flowcontrol on console(config-if)#exit console(config)# interface port-channel 3 console(config-if)#shutdown console(config-if)#exit console(config)# interface port-channel 4 console(config-if)#back-pressure console(config-if)#description p4 console(config-if)#end

console# show interfaces port-channel

Channel	Ports
---------	---------
ch1	Inactive: 1/e(11-13)
ch2	Active: 1/e14

Enabling Storm Control

A Broadcast Storm is a result of an excessive amount of Broadcast messages simultaneously transmitted across a network by a single port. Forwarded message responses are heaped onto the network, straining network resources or causing the network to time out.

Storm Control is enabled per port by defining the packet type and the rate the packets are transmitted.

The system measures the incoming Broadcast, Unicast, and Multicast frame rate separately on each port, and discard frames when the rate exceeds a user-defined rate.

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