Deployment Guide

INTERFACE mode
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● Shut down the port if it receives the PFC/LLFC packets more than the configured rate.
INTERFACE mode
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NOTE: PFC/LLFC storm control enabled interface disables the interfaces if it receives continuous PFC/LLFC packets.
It can be a result of a faulty NIC/Switch that sends spurious PFC/LLFC packets.
Configuring Storm Control from CONFIGURATION Mode
To configure storm control from CONFIGURATION mode, use the following command.
From CONFIGURATION mode you can configure storm control for ingress and egress traffic.
Do not apply per-virtual local area network (VLAN) quality of service (QoS) on an interface that has storm-control enabled
(either on an interface or globally).
● Configure storm control.
CONFIGURATION mode
● Configure the packets per second of broadcast traffic allowed in the network.
CONFIGURATION mode
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● Configure the packets per second (pps) of multicast traffic allowed on C-Series and S-Series networks only.
CONFIGURATION mode
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● Configure the packets per second of unknown-unicast traffic allowed in or out of the network.
CONFIGURATION mode
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PFC Storm
When packets flood a network, the result is excessive traffic which affects the performance of the network. When Priority Flow
Control (PFC) is enabled on a port, the traffic flows according to the priority of the data.
Limitation: Dell EMC Networking OS does not support storm-control pfc, when the policy map uses trust diffserv for
packet classification.
PFC storm is the inconsistencies found in the traffic that flows through a PFC enabled port. You can detect this by polling the
lossless queues on each port. This polling is done at periodic intervals. If the queue has traffic with the corresponding egress
counter not getting incremented, then the condition is detected as PFC storm. During such conditions, the traffic corresponding
to the port or priority can be dropped for a specific period of time to overcome the degrade in the network performance.
Once you detect PFC storm on a port or priority, you can discard all packets on that port/priority and enable drop of the queue,
so that traffic corresponding to other priorities is not affected. You can restore the dropped queue to normal state after a
period of time.
Detect PFC Storm
The following section explains the procedure to detect the PFC storm.
You can detect the PFC storm by polling the lossless queues in a port or priority periodically. When the queue depth is not equal
to zero or when the queue has traffic after subsequent number of polling, then the port or priority is detected to have the PFC
storm.
● Use the polling—interval {interval in milli-seconds} command to set the polling interval. The queue traffic
and egress counters are polled.
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Storm Control