Microsens MS453490M Management Guide - Manual (Page 219)

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ONFIGURATION
Use the Traffic > Storm Control page to configure broadcast storm control
thresholds. Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is
malfunctioning, or if application programs are not well designed or properly
configured. If there is too much broadcast traffic on your network,
performance can be severely degraded or everything can come to complete
halt.
You can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold
for broadcast traffic. Any broadcast packets exceeding the specified
threshold will then be dropped.
CLI R EFERENCES
◆ "switchport packet-rate" on page 707
C OMMAND U SAGE
◆ Broadcast Storm Control is enabled by default.
◆ Broadcast control does not effect IP multicast traffic.
P ARAMETERS
These parameters are displayed:
◆ Interface – Displays a list of ports or trunks.
◆ Type – Indicates interface type. (100Base-TX, 100Base-T, or SFP)
◆ Unknown Unicast – Specifies storm control for unknown unicast
traffic.
◆ Multicast – Specifies storm control for multicast traffic.
◆ Broadcast – Specifies storm control for broadcast traffic.
◆ Status – Enables or disables storm control. (Default: Enabled for
broadcast storm control, disabled for multicast and unknown unicast
storm control)
◆ Rate – Threshold level as a rate; i.e., packets per second.
(Range: 64-1,000,000 kbits per second; Default: 64 kbits per second)
N OTE :
Only one rate is supported for all traffic types on an interface.