Command Reference Guide

24 ● broadcast suppression 3Com Router 5000 Family and Router 6000 Family
Command Reference
broadcast suppression
Purpose Use the broadcast-suppression command to restrict the broadcast traffic size
on the port.
Use the undo broadcast-suppression command to restore the default (100),
allowing all broadcast traffic to pass through without broadcast suppression.
Syntax broadcast-suppression pct
undo broadcast-suppression
Parameters pct
Specifies the maximum wire speed ratio of the
broadcast traffic allowed on the Ethernet port. It
ranges from 5 to 100 and defaults to 100. The smaller
the ratio is, the smaller the broadcast traffic is allowed.
Example Allow 20% of broadcast traffic to pass, meaning 80% of broadcast traffic is
suppressed on the port.
[3Com -Ethernet1/0/1] broadcast-suppression 20
View This command can be used in the following views:
■ Ethernet Port view
Description Once broadcast traffic exceeds the specified value, the system starts discarding
broadcast packets until the broadcast traffic decreased below the acceptable degree.
Related Command display vlan