Owner's Manual

148 Ethernet Configuration Commands
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User Guidelines
Use the port storm-control broadcast rate interface configuration command, to set the
maximum allowable Broadcast rate.
Multicast can be counted as part of the "storm" frames if the
port storm-control include-
multicast
global configuration command is already executed.
Example
The following example enables Broadcast storm control on port g5.
port storm-control broadcast rate
The port storm-control broadcast rate interface configuration command configures the maximum
Broadcast rate. Use the
no form of this command to configure the default value.
port storm-control broadcast rate rate
no port storm-control broadcast rate
• rate —Maximum of kilobytes per second of Broadcast and Multicast traffic on a port.
(Rate: 0 - 1000000
)
Default Configuration
The default storm control Broadcast rate is 12000.
Command Mode
Interface Configuration (Ethernet)
User Guidelines
Use the port storm-control broadcast enable interface configuration command to enable
Broadcast storm control.
The rate is rounded to the nearest 64 kbytes/sec (except 1 - 63 kbytes/sec, which is rounded to
64 kbytes/sec). Note that if the rate is 0, Broadcast packets are not forwarded.
Example
The following example configures the maximum Broadcast rate 10 kilobytes per second.
Console(config)# interface ethernet g5
Console(config-if)# port storm-control broadcast enable
Console(config)# interface ethernet g2
Console(config-if)# port storm-control broadcast rate 10