Manage Individual Port Settings; Set Rate Limits For A Port - Netgate Nighthawk S8000 User Manual

Nighthawk S8000 Gaming & Streaming Advanced 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (GS808E)
a. In the right pane, click the STORM CONTROL RATE tab.
b. Click the blue pencil icon.
c. For each port for which you want to set storm control rate limits, select the rate in Kbps or Mbps
from the individual menu for the port.
The default selection is No Limit.
d. Click the APPLY button.
Your settings are saved and the EDIT STORM CONTROL RATE page closes.
7. Click the APPLY button.
Your settings are saved.

Manage Individual Port Settings

For each individual port, you can set rate limits for incoming and outgoing traffic, set the port speed (by
default, the speed is set automatically), enable flow control, and change the port name label.

Set Rate Limits for a Port

You can limit the rate of incoming traffic, outgoing traffic, or both on a port to prevent the port (and the device
that is attached to it) from taking up too much bandwidth on the switch. Rate limiting simply means that the
switch slows down all traffic on a port so that traffic does not exceed the limit that you set for that port. If
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