Port storm-control broadcast rate – Allied Telesis AT-S95 CLI (AT-8000GS Series) User Manual

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Ethernet Configuration Commands

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Parameters

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Default Configuration

Broadcast storm control is disabled.

Command Modes

Interface Configuration (Ethernet) mode

User Guidelines

Use the port storm-control broadcast rate Interface Configuration (Ethernet) mode command, to set the
maximum allowable Broadcast rate.

Use the port storm-control include-multicast Global Configuration mode command to enable counting
Multicast packets in the storm control calculation.

Examples

The following example enables Broadcast storm control on Ethernet port 1/g5.

port storm-control broadcast rate

The port storm-control broadcast rate Interface Configuration (Ethernet) mode command configures the
maximum Broadcast rate. Use the no form of this command to return to the default configuration.

Syntax

port storm-control broadcast rate rate

no port storm-control broadcast rate

Parameters

rate — Maximum kilobits per second of Broadcast and Multicast traffic on a port. (Range: 70 - 6000000

Default Configuration

The default storm control Broadcast rate is12,000Kbits/Sec.

Command Mode

Interface Configuration (Ethernet) mode

User Guidelines

Use the port storm-control broadcast enable Interface Configuration mode command to enable Broadcast
storm control.

The rate is rounded off to the nearest 64 Kbits/Sec (except for 1 - 63 Kbits/Sec which is rounded off to 64 Kbits/
Sec). If the rate is 0, Broadcast packets are not forwarded.

console(config)# interface ethernet 1/g5

console(config-if)# port storm-control broadcast enable

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