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The Storm Control page provides fields for enabling and configuring Storm Control.
To open Storm Control screen perform the folling:
1.
Click Switch -> Ports -> Strom Control
2.
The Storm Control screen is displayed as in Figure 3-53.
The page includes the following fields:
• Count Multicast with Broadcast -- Counts Broadcast and Multicast traffic. The possible field values are:
ú Enable -- Counts Broadcast and Multicast traffic.
ú Disable -- Counts only Broadcast traffic.
• Broadcast Rate Threshold (0-65535) -- The maximum rate (packets per second) at which bradcast packets are
forwarded. The range is 0-65535. The default value is 1000.
• Port -- The port from which storm control is enabled.
• Broadcast Control -- Enables or disables forwarding broadcast packet types on the device.
Port Mirroring
Port mirroring monitors and mirrors network traffic by forwarding copies of incoming and outgoing packets from one port to
a monitoring port.
Port mirroring is configured by selecting a specific port to copy all packets, and different ports from which the packets
copied. Before configuring Port Mirroring, note the following:
Before configuring Port Mirroring, note the following:
• Monitored port cannot operate faster than the monitoring port.
• All the RX/TX packets should be monitored to the same port.
The following restrictions apply to ports configured to be destination ports:
• Ports cannot be configured as a source port.
• Ports cannot be a LAG member.
• IP interfaces are not configured on the port.
• GVRP is not enabled on the port.
Figure 3-53 Storm Control screen
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