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Storm Control
The Dell EMC Networking OS storm control feature allows you to limit or suppress traffic during a traffic storm (Broadcast/
Unknown Unicast Rate Limiting or Multicast on the C-Series and S-Series).
Storm control is supported on Dell EMC Networking OS.
Important Points to Remember
● Interface commands can only be applied on physical interfaces (virtual local area networks [VLANs] and link aggregation
group [LAG] interfaces are not supported).
● An INTERFACE-level command only supports storm control configuration on ingress.
● An INTERFACE-level command overrides any CONFIGURATION-level ingress command for that physical interface, if both
are configured.
● You can apply the CONFIGURATION-level storm control commands at ingress or egress and are supported on all physical
interfaces.
● When storm control is applied on an interface, the percentage of storm control applied is calculated based on the advertised
rate of the line card. It is not based on the speed setting for the line card.
● Do not apply per-VLAN quality of service (QoS) on an interface that has storm control enabled (either on an interface or
globally).
● When you enable broadcast storm control on an interface or globally on ingress, and DSCP marking for a DSCP value 1 is
configured for the data traffic, the traffic goes to queue 1 instead of queue 0.
● Similarly, if you enable unicast storm control on an interface or globally on ingress, and DSCP marking for a DSCP value 2 is
configured for the data traffic, the traffic goes to queue 2 instead of queue 0.
NOTE:
Bi-directional traffic (unknown unicast and broadcast) along with egress storm control causes the configured traffic
rates split between the involved ports. The percentage of traffic that each port receives after the split is not predictable.
These ports can be in the same/different port pipes or the same/different line cards.
NOTE: The policy discard drop counters are common across storm-control drops, ACL drops and QoS drops. If your
configuration includes ACL and QoS, those drops are also computed and displayed in the policy discard drops counter field
along with storm-control drops. The packets dropped by the storm control feature can be monitored by viewing the value
of the Policy Discard Drops field of the output of the show hardware stack-unit stack—unit—number drops
command.
Topics:
• show storm-control broadcast
• show storm-control multicast
• show storm-control unknown-unicast
• storm-control broadcast (Configuration)
• storm-control broadcast (Interface)
• storm-control PFC/LLFC
• storm-control multicast (Configuration)
• storm-control multicast (Interface)
• storm-control unknown-unicast (Configuration)
• storm-control unknown-unicast (Interface)
show storm-control broadcast
Display the storm control broadcast configuration.
Syntax
show storm-control broadcast [interface]
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