Users Guide

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.
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
Configure Storm Control
Storm control is supported in INTERFACE mode and CONFIGURATION mode.
Configuring Storm Control from CONFIGURATION Mode
To configure storm control from CONFIGURATION mode, use the following command.
You can configure storm control for ingress traffic in CONFIGURATION mode. Do not apply per-virtual local area network (per-VLAN)
quality of service (QoS) on an interface that you have enabled storm-control (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
storm-control broadcast packets_per_second in
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