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Storm Control

Overview

The FTOS Storm Control feature allows users to limit or suppress traffic during a

traffic storm (Broadcast/Unknown Unicast Rate Limiting, or Multicast on the

C-Series and S-Series).

Support for particular Dell Force10 platforms (C-Series, E-Series, or S-Series) is

indicated by the characters that appear under each of the command headings:

E-Series,

c C-Series, s S-Series, , or .

Commands

The Storm Control commands are:

• show storm-control broadcast

• show storm-control multicast

• show storm-control unknown-unicast

• storm-control broadcast (Configuration)

• storm-control broadcast (Interface)

• storm-control multicast (Configuration)

• storm-control multicast (Interface)

• storm-control unknown-unicast (Configuration)

• storm-control unknown-unicast (Interface)

Important Points to Remember

• Interface commands can only be applied on physical interfaces (VLANs and

LAG interfaces are not supported).

• An INTERFACE-level command only support storm control configuration on

ingress.

• An INTERFACE-level command overrides any CONFIGURATION-level

ingress command for that physical interface, if both are configured.

• The CONFIGURATION-level storm control commands can be applied at ingress

or egress and are supported on all physical interfaces.