[c-nsp] 2948G replacement?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:56:23AM -0700, matthew zeier wrote:
> >> That or if one host starts spewing broadcast traffic 
> >> then the switch is nearly useless. 
> > 
> > Broadcast limiting (to some low percentage of interface bandwidth) works 
> > well for us.
> 
> Not familiar with that - how's that configured?

The command is "set port broadcast x/y z%", but as I just found out,
the 2948G doesn't take the command - we have set it on all CatOS switches,
but seems the 2948G doesn't support it and I have forgotten that I
couldn't set it there.

That's not so good indeed.

On the 5500 platform (and on others supporting it) you can set a
switchport to permit only some percentage (we use 1% on GE and 3% on FE)
of the interface bandwidth for broadcast packets.  If a client sends more,
the packets are dropped.

gert


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