Re: [nsp] broadcast limit on Cat3500XL switches?

From: sthaug@nethelp.no
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 10:54:24 EDT


> our big iron catalysts (550x) have the nice and helpful command
> "set port broadcast m/n 5%" to limit broadcast traffic originating from
> that port to 5% of the available (port) bandwidth.
>
> Which is a very good thing :-) - in our sceneario, there is hardly any
> broadcast traffic except ARP, and everything exceeding a mbit is an
> error, and the port shall be throttled.
>
> Now I've been looking for a similar feature on the 3500XL, but can't find
> anything - does it mean it's not there, or I just looked in the wrong
> place?

port storm-control

Use the port storm-control interface configuration command to enable
broadcast, multicast, or unicast storm control on a port. Use the no
form of this command to disable storm control or one of the storm-control
parameters on the port.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



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