4-72ES3000 User Guide

There are three kinds of storm control; DLF, Broadcast, and Multicast.

DLF:

Destination Look Failure packets. DLF packets are broadcast to all ports

 

except the incoming port.

Broadcast:

Packets are delivered to all ports except the incoming port as DLF packets.

Multicast:

Packets are delivered to all ports with group membership.

When Enabled, the CPU drops packets beyond the specified threshold. Otherwise, the CPU processes these packet types without any limitations. The default setting is Disabled for all three packet types.

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