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.
You can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold for broadcast traffic for
each port. Any broadcast packets exceeding the specified threshold is then dropped.
Storm Control Configuration
There are three types of traffic which can be rate limited, including broadcast multicast frame and
Flooded Uncast Rate.
Figure 1-13-1
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Enable Rate Limit: Click the check box to enable storm control.
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Rate (number of frames per second): The Rate field is set by a single drop-down list. The same
threshold is applied to every port on the switch. When the threshold is exceeded, packets are
dropped, irrespective of the flow-control settings.
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Web: Click PORTS, Storm Control. This page enables you to set the broadcast storm control
parameters for every port on the switch.
Figure 1-13-2
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