Evidence Cross-8/HPoE-10G, User Manual

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6-4 Storm Control
The section allows user to configure the Storm control for the switch. There is a destination
lookup failure storm rate control, multicast storm rate control, and a broadcast storm rate
control. These only affect flooded frames, i.e. frames with a (VLAN ID, DMAC) pair not present
on the MAC Address table. The configuration indicates the permitted packet rate for unicast,
multicast or broadcast traffic across the switch
Web Interface
To configure the Storm Control Configuration parameters in the web interface:
1. Click Quality of Service and Storm Control.
2. Evoke to select the frame type to enable storm control.
3. Scroll to set the Rate Parameters and Unit.
4. Click which port need to enable, and configure the Rate limit condition.
5. Click the Apply to save the setting.
6. If you want to cancel the setting then you need to click the Reset button. It will revert to
previously saved values.
Figure 6-4: The Storm Control Configuration
Parameter description:
Global Storm Policer Configuration
Global storm policers for the switch are configured on this page.
There is a unicast storm policer, multicast storm policer, and a broadcast storm policer.
These only affect flooded frames, i.e. frames with a (VLAN ID, DMAC) pair not present in the
MAC Address table.
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Frame Type :
The frame type for which the configuration below applies.
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Enable :
Enable or disable the global storm policer for the given frame type.