Chapter 12 Port Rate Limit and Storm Control

 

Table 23 Rate Limit Configuration (continued)

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Burst Size

The burst size specifies the maximum amount of traffic that can be allowed out the port

 

 

 

at any one instance. In the “Token Bucket” algorithm this is referred to as the size of

 

 

 

the bucket as this value limits the number of tokens that can accumulate in the bucket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your changes to the switch.

 

 

 

 

 

12.1.2 Broadcast Storm Control Setup

Broadcast storm control limits the number of broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast (also referred to as Destination Lookup Failure or DLF) packets the switch receives per second on the ports. When the maximum number of allowable broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast packets is reached per second, the subsequent packets are discarded. Enable this feature to reduce broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast packets in your network.

Click Rate > Storm Control in the navigation panel to display the screen as shown next.

Figure 44 Broadcast Storm Control

 

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