SMC Networks TigerSwitch 100 manual Setting Broadcast Storm Thresholds, Command Attributes

CONFIGURING THE SWITCH

CLI – Select the interface, and then enter the required settings.

Console(config)#interface ethernet 1/13	3-85
Console(config-if)#description RD SW#13	3-86
Console(config-if)#shutdown	3-91
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Console(config-if)#no shutdown
Console(config-if)#no negotiation	3-88
Console(config-if)#speed-duplex 100half	3-86
Console(config-if)#flowcontrol	3-90
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Console(config-if)#negotiation
Console(config-if)#capabilities 100half	3-89
Console(config-if)#capabilities 100full
Console(config-if)#capabilities flowcontrol

Setting Broadcast Storm Thresholds

Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is malfunctioning, or if application programs are not well designed or properly configured. If there is too much broadcast traffic on your network, performance can be severely degraded or everything can come to complete halt.

You can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold for broadcast traffic for each port. Any broadcast packets exceeding the specified threshold will then be dropped.

Command Usage

•Broadcast Storm Control is enabled by default.

•The default threshold is 500 packets per second.

•Broadcast control does not effect IP multicast traffic.

•The specified threshold applies to all ports on the switch.

Command Attributes

•Threshold – Threshold as percentage of port bandwidth. (Options:

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