Enabling Maximum Flood Rate For Multicast Traffic; Configuring Flood Rate Values - Alcatel OmniSwitch 6624 Network Configuration Manual

Configuring Ethernet Ports
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, see
page 1-14.
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.

Configuring Flood Rate Values

By default, the flood rate is 42 Mbps on 10/100 ports and 496 Mbps on Gigabit ports. The
flood rate command can be used to configure the peak flood rate value on a specific port, a range of ports,
or all ports on a switch (slot) in megabits per second, ranging from 0 to 9 Mbps for Ethernet, 0 to 99 Mbps
for Fast Ethernet, or 0 to 999 Mbps for Gigabit Ethernet.
Note. The flood rate cannot be higher than line speed.
To configure the peak flood rate for an entire slot enter interfaces followed by the slot number, flood
rate, and the flood rate in bytes. For example, to configure the peak flood rate on slot 2 as 42 bytes enter:
-> interfaces 2 flood rate 42
OmniSwitch 6624/6648 Network Configuration Guide
command can be used to enable the maximum flood rate for multicast traf-
April 2004
Setting Ethernet Port Parameters
"Enabling the Maximum Flood Rate" on
interfaces flood multicast command will limit
interfaces
page 1-15