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Manage Device Security
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M6100, M5300, and M7100 Series Managed Switches
6. Click the Login button.
The web management interface menu displays.
7. Select Security > Traffic Control > Storm Control > Storm Control Interface
Configuration.
The following table describes the nonconfigurable information displayed on the screen.
Table 223. Storm Control Interface Configuration
Field Description
Broadcast Storm Recovery Mode Enable or disable this option by selecting the corresponding line on the
drop-down entry field. When you specify Enable for Broadcast Storm
Recovery and the broadcast traffic on the specified Ethernet port
exceeds the configured threshold, the switch blocks (discards) the
broadcast traffic. The factory default is Enable.
Broadcast Storm Recovery Level
Type
Specify the broadcast storm recovery level as a percentage of link
speed or as packets per second.
Broadcast Storm Recovery Level Specify the threshold at which storm control activates. The factory
default is 5 percent of port speed for pps type.
Broadcast Storm Control Action Provides configurability to shut down the port when the configured
threshold of the broadcast storm recovery feature gets breached.
Select the option to either ShutDown or RateLimit mode. The default is
RateLimit.
Multicast Storm Recovery Mode Enable or disable this option by selecting the corresponding line on the
list. When you specify Enable for Multicast Storm Recovery and the
multicast traffic on the specified Ethernet port exceeds the configured
threshold, the switch blocks (discards) the multicast traffic. The factory
default is Disable.
Multicast Storm Recovery Level
Type
Specify the multicast storm recovery level as a percentage of link speed
or as packets per second.
Multicast Storm Recovery Level Specify the threshold at which storm control activates. The factory
default is 5 percent of port speed for pps type.
Unicast Storm Recovery Mode Enable or disable this option. When you specify Enable for Unicast
Storm Recovery and the unicast traffic on the specified Ethernet port
exceeds the configured threshold, the switch blocks (discards) the
unicast traffic. The factory default is Disable.