Storm Control - Intellinet 560900 User Manual

4.1.14 Storm Control

Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is malfunctioning, or if application
programs are not well designed or properly configured. If there is too much broadcast traffic on
your network, performance can be severely degraded or everything can come to complete
halt.
You can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold for broadcast traffic
for each port. Any broadcast packets exceeding the specified threshold will then be dropped.
Storm Control Configuration
There are three types of traffic which can be rate limited: broadcast, multicast and flooded
Unicast.
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