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Storm Control
Storm control is supported on the Dell networking OS.
The storm control feature allows you to control unknown-unicast, muticast, and broadcast control traffic on Layer 2 and Layer 3
physical interfaces.
Dell Networking OS Behavior: The Dell Networking OS supports broadcast control (the storm-control broadcast
command) for Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic. The minimum number of packets per second (PPS) that storm control can limit is
two.
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.
You can only configure storm control for ingress traffic in INTERFACE mode. If you configure storm control from
both INTERFACE and CONFIGURATION mode, the INTERFACE mode configurations override the CONFIGURATION mode
configurations.
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
Configure the percentage of multicast traffic allowed on C-Series or S-Series interface (ingress only) network only.
INTERFACE mode
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