Storm Control - Planet GT-915A User Manual

4.4.4 Storm Control

Storm control for the switch is configured on this page. There are a broadcast storm rate control, multicast storm rate control,
and unicast storm rate control. These only affect flooded frames, i.e. frames with a (VLAN ID, DMAC) pair not present on the
MAC Address table.
The configuration indicates the permitted packet rate for unicast, multicast or broadcast traffic across the switch as the Storm
Control configuration screen in
The page includes the following fields:
Object
Storm Control Settings
•
Type
•
Threshold (0-255)
•
Period for (Giga/100/10)
Storm Control State
• Port Selection
•
Broadcast
Figure 4-60 appears.
Figure 4-60: Broadcast Storm Control Configuration Page Screenshot
Description
Types of storm control:
Broadcast: Broadcast packet.
Multicast: Multicast packet, 40th bit in the destination MAC is 1
DLF: The destination address in the MAC table does not exist
ARP: ARP packet.
ICMP: ICMP packet.
During the receive period, the port receives an upper limit for the specified
packet type
Set reception period and the available options are shown below:
200us/2ms/20ms
1ms/10ms/100ms
10ms/10ms/10ms
100ms/100ms/100ms
Select specific port for further configuration.
Enable or disable the broadcast storm control function.
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