Installation guide

WATERS NETWORK SYSTEMS™ ProSwitch
®
- 2600M, User’s Manual, 02/07 Page 46
6.17 Storm Control
The storm control function limits the maximum traffic rate for packet storm. Two types of
traffic storms can be limited: broadcast storm and flooding packet storm. You can enable
the storm control by port. Use the following steps to configure the storm control settings.
1. Set the suppression rate.
2. Select which storm will be controlled and which ports will be applied
• All ports
• None of the ports
• Selected ports (use By Port to select the ports that will use storm control)
Note: Broadcast is “one to all” traffic, so every port will receive packets. Flooding is “one
to all” traffic, but caused by the MAC address not being found in the switch. All ports will
receive the packets.
6.20 – Storm Control