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Trap Frequency

Defines the time period by which traps are sent to the host. The Trap
Frequency (1-1000000) field can be defined only if multiple hosts are
disabled.

The default is 10 seconds.

Status

Where indicates the host status.

4.7.7 Storm control

A BroadcastStorm is a result of an excessive amount of broadcast messages simultaneously transmitted across a network by a
single port. Forwarded message responses are heaped onto the network, straining network resources or causing the network to
time out.

The system measures the incoming Broadcast and Multicast frame rate separately on each port, and discard frames when the
rate exceeds a user-defined rate.

The Storm Control page provides fields for enabling and configuring Storm Control. The screen in Figure 4-36 appears.

Figure 4-36

Storm Control screen

The Page contains the following fields:

Port

Displays the port number for which storm control is enabled

Broadcast Control

This indicates whether broadcast packet types are forwarded on the specific
interface.

Mode

By which specifies the Broadcast mode currently enabled on the device. The

possible field values are:

Unknown Unicast, Multicast & Broadcast, counts Unicast, Multicast, and

Broadcast traffic.

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