Interfaces Flood Rate - Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850-48 Cli Reference Manual

Ethernet Port Commands

interfaces flood rate

Configures flood rate limiting for broadcast, multicast, or unknown unicast traffic on the specified inter-
face.
interfaces {slot | slot/port[-port2]} flood [broadcast | multicast | unknown-unicast | all] rate [mbps
mbps | pps pps | percentage percent]
Syntax Definitions
slot
slot/port[-port2]
mbps
pps
percent
Defaults
The default flood limit settings:
port speed
10 mbps
100 mbps
1 Gig
10 Gig
Platforms Supported
OmniSwitch 6400, 6850, 6850E, 6855, 9000E
Usage Guidelines
•
By default, unknown unicast and multicast traffic is flooded to all Layer 2 ports in a VLAN.
•
Enter a slot number to configure flood rate limiting for all interfaces on a specific slot.
•
Enter a slot and port number or a range of port numbers to configure flood rate limiting on a specific
interface or range of interfaces.
•
The keyword all applies to all traffic types, broadcast, multicast and unknown-unicast.
•
The CLI command, 'interfaces slot[/port[-port2]] flood rate num', is supported only during boot up
process for backward compatibility.
OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide
The slot number for a specific module.
The slot and port number (3/1). Use a hyphen to specify a range of ports
(3/1-3/10).
The number of megabits per second.
The number of packets per second.
The percentage of the port speed.
flood limit
4 mbps
49 mbps
496 mbps
997 mbps
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