Storm Control Settings; Configure The Storm Control Settings Of A Port - Tripp-Lite NGS Serie Guide De L'utilisateur

5. Port Management

5.5 Storm Control Settings

5.5.1 Configure the Storm Control Settings of a Port

Storm Control ensures network performance from a flood of packets from Multicast, Unicast, or Broadcast traffic on the LAN. To configure,
select "Port Management
feature is disabled.
The view in Figure 5.10 displays the storm control configuration of the switch by port.
• Ports: Displays the switch's port number.
• Broadcast: Displays whether Broadcast packet control is enabled or disabled. "0" denotes disabled.
• Multicast: Displays whether Multicast packet control is enabled or disabled. "0" denotes disabled.
• Unicast: Displays whether Unicast packet control is enabled or disabled. "0" denotes disabled.
• Storm Control Value: Set the rate at which storm control will be activated (between 0-262143 pps).
• Storm Control Type: Displays the types of storm control settings that can be configured for "Unknown-only" or "Both". A device can
implement the storm suppression to a broadcast, a multicast, or a unicast storm respectively. When excessive broadcast, multicast
or unknown unicast packets are received, the switch temporarily prohibits forwarding of relevant types of packets till data streams are
recovered to the normal state (then packets will be forwarded normally).
Storm Control" to change the storm control settings of a selected port or ports (Figure 5.10). By default, this
Figure 5.10: Storm Control Configuration Table
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