User Manual

M4300 Intelligent Edge Series Fully Managed Stackable Switches
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The following three controls provide an easy way to enable or disable each type of
packets to be rate-limited on every port in a global fashion. The effective storm control
state of each port can be viewed by going to the port configuration page.
5. Select the storm control settings:
• Select the Broadcast Storm Control All Disable or Enable radio button.
This enables or disables Broadcast Storm Recovery mode on all ports. When you
specify Enable and the broadcast traf
fic on any Ethernet port exceeds the configured
threshold, the switch blocks (discards) the broadcast traffic. The factory default is
Enable.
• Select the Multicast Storm Control All Disable or Enable radio button.
This enables or disables Multicast Storm Recovery mode on all ports. When you
specify Enable, and the multicast traf
fic on any Ethernet port exceeds the configured
threshold, the switch blocks (discards) the multicast traffic. The factory default is
Disable.
• Select the Unknown Unicast Storm Control All Disable or Enable radio button.
This enables or disables Unicast Storm Recovery mode on all ports. When you
specify Enable, and the unicast traf
fic on any Ethernet port exceeds the configured
threshold, the switch blocks (discards) the unicast traffic. The factory default is
Disable.
6. Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Configure Storm Control for a Port
To configure storm control for a port:
1. Launch a web browser
.
2. In the address field of your web browser
, enter the IP address of the switch.
The login window opens.
3. Enter admin as the user name, enter your local device password,
and click the Login
button.
The first time that you log in, no password is required. However, you then must specify a
local device password to use each subsequent time that you log in.
The System Information page displays.
4. Select Security > T
raffic Control > Storm Control > Storm Control Interface
Configuration.