Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Initial Configuration
- Chapter 3: Configuring the Switch
- Using the Web Interface
- Navigating the Web Browser Interface
- Web Configuration
- Displaying Status Overview
- Showing Port Statistics
- Displaying the System Name
- Setting the Switch’s IP Address
- Configuring the Logon Password
- Tools
- Register Product
- Port Configuration
- Storm Control
- Port Mirroring
- Cable Diagnostic
- Trunk Membership
- Trunk Configuration
- LACP Setup
- LACP Status
- Configuring VLAN Groups
- 802.1X
- LLDP Settings
- LLDP Neighbor Table
- RSTP
- QoS Settings
- SNMP
- PoE
- Appendix A: Software Specifications
- Appendix B: Troubleshooting

Web Configuration
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Storm Control
Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is malfunctioning, or if
application programs are not well designed or properly configured. If there is too
much broadcast traffic on your network, performance can be severely degraded or
everything can come to complete halt.
You can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold for
broadcast traffic for each port. Any broadcast packets exceeding the specified
threshold will then be dropped.
Field Attributes
• Type – List the type of traffic which can be rate limited, including broadcast and
multicast frames.
• Enable Rate Limits – Click the check box to enable storm control.
• Rate (number of frames per second) – The Rate field is set by a single drop-down
list. The same threshold is applied to every port on the switch. When the threshold
is exceeded, packets are dropped, irrespective of the flow-control settings.
Web – Click PORTS, Storm Control. This page enables you to set the broadcast
storm control parameters for every port on the switch.
Figure 3-14 Port Broadcast Control