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User’s Manual of WGSW-48000
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4.7.6 Storm Control
Forwarding broadcast traffic consumes switch resuources, which can negatively impact the forwarding of other traffic. This
configuration page is used to protect regular traffic from an overabundance of broadcast or multicast traffic. 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 4-7-19 appears.
Figure 4-7-19 Storm Control screenshot
The page includes the following fields:
Object Description
• Port Configure a single port or all ports.
• Control Type By which specifies the Broadcast mode currently enabled on the device. The possible field
values are:
• None: disable storm control function
• Broadcast: counts only Broadcast traffic.
• Broadcast, Multicast: counts Broadcast and Multicast traffic together.
• Broadcast, Unknown Unicast: counts Broadcast and unknown unicast traffic.
• Broadcast, Multicast, Unknown Unicast: counts Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast
traffic.
• Control Rate Specifies a rate for storm control. Where the maximum rate (packets per second) at which
unknown packets are forwarded. The available rate as below:
• 10pps
• 100pps
• 1000pps
• 5000pps
• 10000pps
• 50000pps
• 100000pps