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10.2 Bandwidth Control
Bandwidth function, allowing you to control the traffic rate and broadcast flow on each port to
ensure network in working order, can be implemented on
Rate Limit
and
Storm Control
pages.
10.2.1 Storm Control
Storm Control function allows the switch to filter broadcast, multicast and UL frame in the network.
If the transmission rate of the three kind packets exceeds the set bandwidth, the packets will be
automatically discarded to avoid network broadcast storm.
Choose the menu
QoS
→
Bandwidth Control
→
Storm Control
to load the following page.
Figure 10-11 Storm Control
The following entries are displayed on this screen:
Storm Control Config
UNIT:1/LAGS:
Click
1
to configure the physical ports. Click
LAGS
to configure
the link aggregation groups.
Select:
Select the desired port for Storm Control configuration. It is
multi-optional.
Port:
Displays the port number of the switch.
PPS:
Enable or disable the PPS mode.
Broadcast Rate
Mode:
Select the broadcast rate mode, pps mode is invalid if the PPS is
disabled.
kbps
: Specify the threshold in kbits per second.
ratio
: Specify the threshold as a percentage of the bandwidth.
pps
: Specify the threshold in packets per second.
Broadcast:
Enable/Disable broadcast control feature for the port.