S1700 Managed Series Ethernet Switches
Web User Manual
9 Security
Issue 05 (2012-10-25)
Huawei Proprietary and Confidential
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Step 6
Select actions that will be taken to storm from drop down menu of Action field.
Step 7
Configure packet threshold value that switch will enable storm control in Upper and Lower
field.
Step 8
Click Apply button to apply all the changes made.
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CAUTION
Storm Control cannot be enabled on link aggregation member port.
9.4.2 Storm Suppression
Storm Suppression page is used to configure multicast, broadcast and unknown unicast traffic
control threshold. The user can suppress the traffic storm by setting Drop Threshold Value,
and any packet exceeding the specified threshold will be dropped.
Click Security> Storm Suppression> Storm Suppression, the configuration page is displayed
as follows.
Figure 9-18
Storm Suppression
Table 9-13
Parameters of Storm Suppression
Item
Description
Interface Name
Display interface number.
Type
Unicast: Specify the storm suppression for the unicast traffic.
Multicast: Specify the storm suppression for the multicast
traffic.
Broadcast: Specify the storm suppression for the broadcast
traffic.
Status
Enable or Disable traffic suppression.
Drop
The packet exceeding the specified threshold value will be
dropped. Threshold can be based on message rate (kbps) and
(%) percentage of bandwidth.