Chapter 12 Port Rate Limit and Storm Control

Figure 44 Broadcast Storm Control

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 24 Broadcast Storm Control

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Port

Select the port number for which you want to configure storm control settings or

 

select Apply settings to all ports to configure all the ports at once.

 

 

Storm Control

Select

Type

Disabled - to turn off this feature.

 

Broadcast only - to only specify a limit for the amount of broadcast packets

 

received per second.

 

Broadcast and multicast - to specify a limit for the amount of broadcast and

 

multicast packets received per second.

 

Broadcast and unknown unicast - to specify a limit for the amount of broadcast

 

and DLF packets received per second.

 

Broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast - to specify a limit for the amount of

 

broadcast, multicast and DLF (Destination Lookup Failure) packets received per

 

second.

 

 

Storm Control

Select the number of packets (of the type specified in the Storm Control Type

Rate

field) per second the switch can receive per second.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes to the switch.

 

 

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