Administrator Guide

Storm Control
Storm control allows you to control unknown-unicast, muticast, and broadcast traffic on Layer 2 and Layer 3 physical interfaces.
Dell Networking Operating System (OS) Behavior: Dell Networking OS supports unknown-unicast, muticast, and broadcast
control (the storm-control broadcast command) for Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic.
To view the storm control broadcast configuration show storm-control broadcast | multicast | unknown-
unicast | pfc-llfc[interface] command.
EXEC Privilege
To view the storm control multicast configuration, use the show storm-control broadcast | multicast |
unknown-unicast | pfc-llfc [interface] command.
EXEC Privilege
Example:
Dell#show storm-control multicast Tengigabitethernet 1/1
Multicast storm control configuration
Interface Direction Packets/Second
-----------------------------------------
Te 1/1 Ingress 5
Dell#
To display the storm control unknown-unicast configuration, use the show storm-control unknown-unicast
[interface] command.
EXEC Privilege
Topics:
• Configure Storm Control
Configure Storm Control
Storm control is supported in INTERFACE mode and CONFIGURATION mode.
Configuring Storm Control from INTERFACE Mode
To configure storm control, use the following command.
From INTERFACE mode:
● You can only configure storm control for ingress traffic.
● If you configure storm control from both INTERFACE and CONFIGURATION mode, the INTERFACE mode configurations
override the CONFIGURATION mode configurations.
● The storm control is calculated in packets per second.
● Configure storm control.
INTERFACE mode
● Configure the packets per second of broadcast traffic allowed on an interface (ingress only).
INTERFACE mode
storm-control broadcast packets_per_second in
● Configure the packets per second of multicast traffic allowed on C-Series or S-Series interface (ingress only) network only.
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