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CHAPTER 5: QUALITY OF SERVICE
Port Shaper Enable: Controls whether the port shaper is enabled for this switch port.
Port Shaper Rate: Controls the rate for the port shaper. This value is restricted to 100-13107100 when “Unit” is kbps, and 1-13107
when “Unit” is Mbps. The rate is internally rounded up to the nearest value supported by the port shaper.
Port Shaper Unit: Controls the unit of measure for the port shaper rate as kbps or Mbps.
Port Shaper Rate-type: The rate type of the port shaper. The allowed values are:
– Line: Specify that this shaper operates on line rate.
– Data: Specify that this shaper operates on data rate.
Buttons
Apply: Click to save changes.
Reset: Click to undo any changes made locally and revert to previously saved values.
5.4 STORM CONTROL
This section explains how 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. Select the frame type to enable storm control.
3. Scroll to set the Rate Parameters and Unit.
4. Click the port to enable, and configure the Rate limit condition.
5. Click Apply to save the setting.
6. To cancel the setting, click the Reset button. It will revert to previously saved values.