Defining Storm Control - Cisco 300 Series Administration Manual

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Defining Storm Control

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Defining Storm Control
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Cisco Small Business 200, 300 and 500 Series Managed Switch Administration Guide (Internal Version)
• Local IP Address—Local IP address through which the device is offering
the service.
• Local Port—Local UDP port through which the device is offering the service.
• Application Instance—The service instance of the UDP service. (For
example, when two senders send data to the same destination.)
Click Apply. The services are written to the Running Configuration file.
When Broadcast, Multicast, or Unknown Unicast frames are received, they are
duplicated, and a copy is sent to all possible egress ports. This means that in
practice they are sent to all ports belonging to the relevant VLAN. In this way, one
ingress frame is turned into many, creating the potential for a traffic storm.
Storm protection enables you to limit the number of frames entering the device
and to define the types of frames that are counted towards this limit.
When the rate of Broadcast, Multicast, or Unknown Unicast frames is higher than
the user-defined threshold, frames received beyond the threshold are discarded.
To define Storm Control:
Click Security > Storm Control.
All the fields on this page are described in the Edit Storm Control page except for
the Storm Control Rate Threshold (%). It displays the percent of the total
available bandwidth for unknown Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast packets
before storm control is applied at the port. The default value is 10% of the
maximum rate of the port and is set in the Edit Storm Control page.
Select a port and click Edit.
Enter the parameters.
• Interface—Select the port for which storm control is enabled.
• Storm Control—Select to enable Storm Control.
• Storm Control Rate Threshold—Enter the maximum rate at which unknown
packets can be forwarded. The default for this threshold is 10,000 for FE
devices and 100,000 for GE devices.
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