Manage Broadcast Filtering And Set Port Storm Control Rate Limits - Netgate Nighthawk S8000 User Manual

Nighthawk S8000 Gaming & Streaming Advanced 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (GS808E)
a. In the right pane, click the RATE LIMITS tab.
If broadcast filtering is disabled, only the RATE LIMITS tab displays.
b. Click the blue pencil icon.
c. For each port for which you want to set rate limits, select the rate in Kbps or Mbps from the individual
In Limits and Out Limits menus for the port.
The default selection is No Limit.
d. Click the APPLY button.
Your settings are saved and the EDIT RATE LIMITS page closes.
Manage Broadcast Filtering and Set Port Storm Control
Rate Limits
A broadcast storm is a massive transmission of broadcast packets that are forwarded to every port on the
switch. If they are not blocked, broadcast storm packets can delay or halt the transmission of other data
and cause problems. However, you can block broadcast storms on the switch.
You can also set storm control rate limits for each port. Storm control measures the incoming broadcast,
multicast, and unknown unicast frame rates separately on each port, and discards the frames if the rate that
you set for the port is exceeded. By default, no storm control rate limit is set for a port. You can select each
storm control rate limit as a predefined data transfer threshold from 512 Kbps to 512 Mbps.
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