Web Management Guide-R06

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Chapter 8
| Congestion Control
Storm Control
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control responses. However, only one of these control types can be applied to a
port. Enabling hardware-level storm control on a port will disable automatic
storm control on that port.
Rate limits set by the storm control function are also used by automatic storm
control when the control response is set to rate control on the Auto Traffic
Control (Configure Interface) page.
Using both rate limiting and storm control on the same interface may lead to
unexpected results. It is therefore not advisable to use both of these features on
the same interface.
Parameters
These parameters are displayed:
Interface – Displays a list of ports or trunks.
Type – Indicates the port type. (1000BASE-T, 1000BASE SFP or 10GBASE SFP+)
Unknown Unicast – Specifies storm control for unknown unicast traffic.
Multicast – Specifies storm control for multicast traffic.
Broadcast – Specifies storm control for broadcast traffic.
Status – Enables or disables storm control. (Default: Enabled for broadcast
storm control, disabled for multicast and unknown unicast storm control)
Rate – Threshold level in packets per second.
(Range: 500-14881000 pps; Default: Disabled for unknown unicast and
multicast traffic, 500 pps for broadcast traffic)
Web Interface
To configure broadcast storm control:
1. Click Traffic, Storm Control.
2. Set the interface type to Port or Trunk.
3. Set the Status field to enable or disable storm control.
4. Set the required threshold beyond which the switch will start dropping
packets.
5. Click Apply.