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6.4.7Broadcast Storm Control
In addition to ingress rate limiting, the LAN9311/LAN9311i supports hardware broadcast storm control on a per port basis. This feature is enabled via the Switch Engine Broadcast Throttling Register (SWE_BCST_THROT). The allowed rate per port is specified as the number of bytes multiplied by 64 allowed to be received every 1.72 mS interval. Packets that exceed this limit are dropped. Typical values are listed in Table 6.4. When a port is receiving at 10Mbps, any setting above 34 has the effect of not limiting the rate.
Table 6.4 | Typical Broadcast Rate Settings | |
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Broadcast Throttle Level |
| Bandwidth |
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252 |
| 75 Mbps |
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168 |
| 50 Mbps |
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134 |
| 40 Mbps |
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67 |
| 20 Mbps |
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34 |
| 10 Mbps |
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17 |
| 5 Mbps |
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8 |
| 2.4 Mbps |
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4 |
| 1.2 Mbps |
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3 |
| 900 Kbps |
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2 |
| 600 Kbps |
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1 |
| 300 Kbps |
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In addition to the rate limit, the Buffer Manager Broadcast Buffer Level Register (BM_BCST_LVL) specifies the maximum number of buffers that can be used by broadcasts, multicasts, and unknown unicasts.
6.4.8IPv4 IGMP / IPv6 MLD Support
The LAN9311/LAN9311i provides Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) hardware support using two mechanisms: IGMP/MLD snooping and Multicast Pruning.
On ingress, if IGMP packet snooping is enabled in the Switch Engine Global Ingress Configuration Register (SWE_GLOBAL_INGRSS_CFG), IGMP multicast packets are trapped and redirected to the MLD/IGMP snoop port (typically set to the port to which the host CPU is connected). IGMP packets are identified as IPv4 packets with a protocol of 2. Both Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 frame formats are supported as are VLAN tagged packets.
On ingress, if MLD packet snooping is enabled in the Switch Engine Global Ingress Configuration Register (SWE_GLOBAL_INGRSS_CFG), MLD multicast packets are trapped and redirected to the MLD/IGMP snoop port (typically set to the port to which the host CPU is connected). MLD packets are identified as IPv6 packets with a next header value of 58 decimal (ICMPv6). Both Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 frame formats are supported as are VLAN tagged packets.
Once the IGMP or MLD packets are received by the host CPU, the host software can decide which port or ports need to be members of the multicast group. This group is then added to the ALR table as detailed in Section 6.4.1.3, "Multicast Pruning," on page 64. The host software should also forward the original IGMP packet if necessary.
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