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BROADCAST STORM CONTROL COMMANDS
The broadcast storm control commands in the Command Line Interface (CLI) are listed (along with the appropriate parameters)
in the following table.
Command Parameters
config traffic control [<storm_grouplist 1-8> | all ] { broadcast [enabled | disabled] |
multicast [enabled | disabled] | dlf [enabled | disabled] | threshold
<value 0-255> }
show traffic control group_list <storm_grouplist>
Each command is listed, in detail, in the following sections.
config traffic control
Purpose Used to configure broadcast/multicast traffic control.
Syntax
config traffic control [<storm_grouplist 1-8> | all] broadcast
[enable | disable] | multicast [enable | disable] | dlf [enable |
disable] | threshold <value 0-255>
Description This command is used to configure broadcast storm control.
Parameters
<storm_grouplist> − Used to specify a broadcast storm control
group. This is specified by entering the syntax unit_id.
all − Specifies all broadcast storm control groups on the switch.
broadcast [enable | disable] − Enables or disables broadcast storm
control.
multicast [enable | disable] − Enables or disables multicast storm
control.
dlf [enable | disable] − Enables or disables dlf traffic control.
threshold <value> − The upper threshold at which the specified
traffic control is switched on. The <value> is the number of
broadcast/multicast/dlf packets, in Kbps, received by the switch that
will trigger the storm traffic control measures.
Restrictions Only administrator-level users can issue this command.
Example usage:
To configure traffic control and enable broadcast storm control system wide:
DES-3550:4#config traffic control all broadcast enabled
Command: config traffic control all broadcast enabled
Success.
DES-3550:4#
