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Storm Control
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Overview
• Configuring Storm Control
Overview
The storm control feature allows you to control unknown-unicast and broadcast traffic on Layer 2, Layer 3,
and multicast physical interfaces.
Configuring Storm Control
Storm control is supported in INTERFACE mode and CONFIGURATION mode
Configuring storm control from INTERFACE mode
Configure storm control from INTERFACE mode using the command storm control. 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 percentage of storm control is calculated based on the advertised rate of the port, not by the speed
setting.
Configuring storm control from CONFIGURATION mode
Configure storm control from CONFIGURATION mode using the command storm control. From
CONFIGURATION mode you can configure storm control for ingress and egress traffic.
Dell Networking OS Behavior: The Dell Networking OS supports broadcast control (storm-control
broadcast
command) for Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic.
Dell Networking OS Behavior: The minimum number of packets per second (PPS) that storm control
can limit is two.