Configuring Flood Rates; Enabling The Maximum Flood Rate; Enabling Maximum Flood Rate For Multicast Traffic - Alcatel OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Manual

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Setting Ethernet Port Parameters

Configuring Flood Rates

The following subsections describe how to enable the maximum flood rate (see
Flood Rate" on page
Flood Rate for Multicast Traffic" on page
(slot), a specific port, or a range of ports (see

Enabling the Maximum Flood Rate

The
interfaces flood
only one slot can be configured at a time. You cannot configure specific ports or ranges of ports.
Note. To enable flood multicasting on an interface, see
Traffic" on page
1-20.
To enable the maximum flood rate on a slot enter interfaces followed by the slot number and flood. For
example, to enable the maximum flood rate on slot 2 enter:
-> interfaces 2 flood
As an option, you can document the interface type by entering ethernet, fastethernet, or gigaethernet
before the slot number. For example, to enable the maximum flood rate on slot 2 enter and document the
slot as Gigabit Ethernet enter:
-> interfaces gigaethernet 2 flood

Enabling Maximum Flood Rate for Multicast Traffic

The
interfaces flood multicast
fic for a switch (slot). Note that only one slot can be configured per command. You cannot configure
specific ports or ranges of ports.
Note. To enable maximum flood rate on an interface and to disable any flood multicast configuration use
the interface flood command, which is described on
To enable the maximum flood rate for multicast traffic on a slot enter interfaces followed by the slot
number and flood multicast. For example, to enable the maximum flood rate for multicast traffic on slot 2
enter:
-> interfaces 2 flood multicast
As an option, you can document the interface type by entering ethernet, fastethernet, or gigaethernet
before the slot number. For example, to enable the maximum flood rate for multicast traffic on slot 2 enter
and document the slot as Gigabit Ethernet enter:
-> interfaces gigaethernet 2 flood multicast
Note. Enabling the maximum multicast flood rate with the
IP Multicast Switching (IPMS) and non-IPMS multicast traffic.
page 1-20
1-20), enable the maximum flood rate for multicast traffic (see
1-20), and how to configure the flood rate on an entire switch
"Configuring Flood Rate Values" on page
command can be used to enable the maximum flood rate for a switch (slot). Note that
command can be used to enable the maximum flood rate for multicast traf-
OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Guide
"Enabling Maximum Flood Rate for Multicast
"Enabling the Maximum Flood Rate" on page
interfaces flood multicast
Configuring Ethernet Ports
"Enabling the Maximum
"Enabling Maximum
1-21).
1-20.
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