Reference Guide

max-suppress-
time
Enter the maximum number for which a route can be
suppressed. The default is four times the half-life value. The
range is 1 to 86400. The default is 20 seconds.
Defaults Disabled.
Command
Modes
INTERFACE (conf-if-)
Command
History
Version 9.0(1.3) Introduced on the S5000.
Usage
Information
With each flap, Dell Networking OS penalizes the interface by assigning a penalty
(1024) that decays exponentially depending on the configured half-life. After the
accumulated penalty exceeds the suppress threshold value, the interface moves to
the Error-Disabled state. This interface state is deemed as “down” by all static/
dynamic Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols. The penalty is exponentially decayed based
on the half-life timer. After the penalty decays below the reuse threshold, the
interface enables. The configured parameters are as follows:
• suppress-threshold should be greater than reuse-threshold
• max-suppress-time should be at least 4 times half-life
NOTE: You cannot apply dampening on an interface that is monitoring traffic
for other interfaces.
Example
Dell(conf-if-te-3/2)#dampening 20 800 4500 120
Dell(conf-if-te-3/2)#
Related
Commands
clear dampening – clears the dampening counters on all the interfaces or just the
specified interface.
show interfaces dampening – displays interface dampening information.
description
Assign a descriptive text string to the interface.
S5000
Syntax
description desc_text
To delete a description, use the no description command.
Parameters
desc_text Enter a text string up to 240 characters long.
Defaults none
Interfaces
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