The Storm Control page provides fields for enabling and configuring Storm Control.
To open the Storm Control page, click Switch → Ports → Storm Control in the tree view.
Figure 7-25. Storm Control
The Storm Control page contains the following fields:
•Port — The port from which storm control is enabled.
•Broadcast Control — Enables or disables forwarding Broadcast packet types on the specific interface.
–Enable — Enables Broadcast packet types to be forwarded.
–Disable — Disables Broadcast packet types to be forwarded.
•Broadcast Mode — Specifies the Broadcast mode currently enabled on the device or stack. The possible field values are:
–Multicast & Broadcast — Counts Broadcast and Multicast traffic together.
–Broadcast Only — Counts only Broadcast traffic.
•Broadcast Rate Threshold
Enabling Storm Control
1Open the Storm Control page.
2Select an interface on which to implement storm control.
3Define the fields.
4Click Apply Changes. Storm Control is enabled.
