Configuring small-frame arrival rate – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 and 3032 for Dell Software Configuration Guide

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Chapter 26 Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control

Configuring Storm Control

To disable storm control, use the no storm-control {broadcast | multicast | unicast} level interface
configuration command.

This example shows how to enable unicast storm control on a port with an 87-percent rising suppression
level and a 65-percent falling suppression level:

Switch# configure terminal

Switch(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/0/1

Switch(config-if)# storm-control unicast level 87 65

This example shows how to enable broadcast address storm control on a port to a level of 20 percent.
When the broadcast traffic exceeds the configured level of 20 percent of the total available bandwidth
of the port within the traffic-storm-control interval, the switch drops all broadcast traffic until the end
of the traffic-storm-control interval:

Switch# configure terminal

Switch(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/0/1

Switch(config-if)# storm-control broadcast level 20

Configuring Small-Frame Arrival Rate

Incoming VLAN-tagged packets smaller than 67 bytes are considered small frames. They are forwarded
by the switch, but they do not cause the switch storm-control counters to increment. In Cisco IOS
Release 12.2(44)SE and later, you can configure a port to be error disabled if small frames arrive at a
specified rate (threshold).

You globally enable the small-frame arrival feature on the switch and then configure the small-frame
threshold for packets on each interface. Packets smaller than the minimum size and arriving at a
specified rate (the threshold) are dropped since the port is error disabled.

If the errdisable recovery cause small-frame global configuration command is entered, the port is
re-enabled after a specified time. (You specify the recovery time by using errdisable recovery global
configuration command.)

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure the threshold level for each
interface:

Step 6

show storm-control [interface-id] [broadcast |
multicast | unicast]

Verify the storm control suppression levels set on the interface for
the specified traffic type. If you do not enter a traffic type,
broadcast storm control settings are displayed.

Step 7

copy running-config startup-config

(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.

Command

Purpose

Command

Purpose

Step 1

configure terminal

Enter global configuration mode.

Step 2

errdisable detect cause small-frame

Enable the small-frame rate-arrival feature on the switch.

Step 3

errdisable recovery interval interval

(Optional) Specify the time to recover from the specified
error-disabled state.

Step 4

errdisable recovery cause small-frame

(Optional) Configure the recovery time for error-disabled ports to
be automatically re-enabled after they are error disabled by the
arrival of small frames

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