Configuring Switch Information 309
The Storm Control page provides fields for enabling and configuring Storm Control.
To open the Storm Control page, click Switch → Ports → Storm Control in the tree view.
Figure 7-25. Storm Control
The Storm Control page contains the following fields:
•
Port
— The port from which storm control is enabled.
•
Broadcast Control
— Enables or disables forwarding Broadcast packet types on the specific interface.
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Enable
— Enables Broadcast packet types to be forwarded.
–
Disable
— Disables Broadcast packet types to be forwarded.
•
Broadcast Mode
— Specifies the Broadcast mode currently enabled on the device or stack.
The possible field values are:
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Multicast & Broadcast
— Counts Broadcast and Multicast traffic together.
–
Broadcast Only
— Counts only Broadcast traffic.
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Broadcast Rate Threshold (70-1000000)
— The maximum rate (Kbits/sec) at which unknown packets
are forwarded. The field range is 70-1,000,000 Kbps.
Enabling Storm Control
1
Open the
Storm Control
page.
2
Select an interface on which to implement storm control.
3
Define the fields.
4
Click
Apply Changes
.
Storm Control is enabled.
