Chapter 16 Ethernet Port Configuration

Figure 125 Ethernet Port Configuration: Bandwidth Ctrl.

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 91 Ethernet Port Configuration: Bandwidth Ctrl.

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable

Select this check box to enable ingress and/or egress bandwidth control.

 

You may temporarily deactivate a rule without deleting it by clearing this check box.

 

 

Ingress Rate

Type the maximum bandwidth allowed in kilobits per second (Kbps) for traffic coming

 

into this port.

 

 

Commit Rate

Specify the guaranteed bandwidth allowed in kilobits per second (Kbps) for the

 

incoming traffic flow on a port. The commit rate should be less than the peak rate. The

 

sum of commit rates cannot be greater than or equal to the uplink bandwidth.

 

 

Peak Rate

Specify the maximum bandwidth allowed in kilobits per second (Kbps) for the incoming

 

traffic flow on a port.

 

 

Egress Rate

Type the maximum bandwidth allowed in kilobits per second (Kbps) for traffic going out

 

of this port.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save the changes.

 

 

16.13 Broadcast Storm Control

Broadcast storm control limits the number of broadcast, multicast and destination lookup failure (DLF) packets the switch receives per second on the ports. When the maximum number of allowable broadcast, multicast and/or DLF packets is reached per second, the subsequent packets are discarded. Enable this feature to reduce broadcast, multicast and/or DLF packets in your network.

To open the configuration screen, right-click on the switch in the Device List Panel, and click Configuration > Ethernet Port > Broadcast Storm Ctrl.. Then select a device and the port(s) to which you want to apply this configuration.

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