4.5.3 Storm Control
4.5.3.1 Storm Policing
Global storm policers for the switch are configured on this page.
There is a unicast storm policer, multicast storm policer, and a broadcast storm policer.
These only affect flooded frames, i.e. frames with a (VLAN ID, DMAC) pair not present in the MAC Address table.
The displayed settings are:
The page includes the following fields:
Object
Frame Type
Enable
Rate
Unit
Buttons
: Click to apply changes
: Click to undo any changes made locally and revert to previously saved values.
Description
The frame type for which the configuration below applies.
Enable or disable the global storm policer for the given frame type.
Controls the rate for the global storm policer. This value is restricted
to 10-13128147 when "Unit" is fps or kbps, and 1-13128 when "Unit" is kfps or
Mbps. The rate is internally rounded up to the nearest value supported by the
global storm policer. Supported rates are divisible by 10 fps or 25 kbps.
Controls the unit of measure for the global storm policer rate as fps, kfps, kbps or
Mbps.
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