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Storm Control
The storm control feature allows you to control unknown-unicast, muticast, and broadcast control traffic on Layer 2 and Layer 3
physical interfaces.
The minimum number of packets per second (PPS) that storm control can limit is two.
Dell Networking Operating System (OS) Behavior: Dell Networking OS supports broadcast control (the storm-control
broadcast command) for Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic.
To view the storm control broadcast configuration show storm-control broadcast | multicast | unknown-
unicast | pfc-llfc [interface] command.
EXEC Privilege
To view the storm control multicast configuration, use the show storm-control multicast [interface] command.
EXEC Privilege
Example:
Dell#show storm-control multicast Tengigabitethernet 1/1
Multicast storm control configuration
Interface Direction Packets/Second
-----------------------------------------
Te 1/1 Ingress 5
Dell#
To display the storm control unknown-unicast configuration, use the show storm-control unknown-unicast
[interface] command.
EXEC Privilege
Topics:
Configure Storm Control
Configure Storm Control
Storm control is supported in INTERFACE mode and CONFIGURATION mode.
Configuring Storm Control from INTERFACE Mode
To configure storm control, use the following command.
From INTERFACE mode:
You can only on configure storm control for ingress traffic.
If you configure storm control from both INTERFACE and CONFIGURATION mode, the INTERFACE mode configurations
override the CONFIGURATION mode configurations.
The storm control is calculated in packets per second.
Configure storm control.
INTERFACE mode
Configure the percentage of broadcast traffic allowed on an interface (ingress only).
INTERFACE mode
storm-control broadcast packets_per_second in
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