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4.3.2 Storm Control
Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is malfunctioning, or if application programs are
not well designed or properly configured. If there is too much broadcast traffic on your network, performance
can be severely degraded or everything can come to complete halt.
User can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold for broadcast traffic for each port.
Any broadcast packets exceeding the specified threshold will then be dropped.
Figure: 4.2.22
Parameter
Description
Storm Type
List the type of traffic which can be rate limited, including
Broadcast
,
Multicast
,
Unknown Unicast
and
Unknow Multicast
frames.
Port
Port1, Port2, Port3, Port4, Port5, Port6, Port7, Port8
State
OFF:disable storm control
ON: enable storm control
Rate (kbps)
Rate: number of frame per second. The same threshold is key-in by user from
8-1000000kbps) to the per port setting.When the threshold is exceeded, packets are
dropped,
irrespective of the flow-control settings.
