RE: [nsp] broadcast limit on Cat3500XL switches?

From: Deepak Jain (deepak@ai.net)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 12:24:40 EDT

I have noticed some significant performance penalties if you try to do storm
control on GE ports on a 3500XL, YMMV...
Regards,

Deepak Jain
AiNET

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@greenie.muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:59 AM
To: Andrew Fort
Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] broadcast limit on Cat3500XL switches?

Hi,

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:49:15AM +1000, Andrew Fort wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Gert, its there in 12.0(5.2)XU and later (maybe earlier also).. from a
> switch in sunny Gosford in the middle-of-nowhere, .AU :)
>
> gos-hub1(config-if)#port storm-control ?
> broadcast Broadcast address storm control
> multicast Multicast address storm control
> unicast Unicast address storm control

Thanks (to Steinar Haug as well) - this is what I was looking for.

So it was "just hiding". Sometimes CCO searching sucks...

My switch in question can do it :-) -> off we go, reading documentation
about configuration and monitoring.

Thanks again,

gert 

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