[c-nsp] Storm control?

[christian.macnevin at uk.bnpparibas.com]

> I am looking for real life experiences with the storm-control feature. 
Does
> it really help? Did it save your network some time? What levels of 
broadcast
> / unicast / multicast would you recommend?

>I can't recall having any benefit yet from multicast storm-control, but
better safe than sorry.

In a non-reliable multicast environment, sure. When you've got a negative 
acknowledgement mechanism set
up to implement reliability, then leaving it switched off is safer. Storm 
control with NAKs should be renamed
'Storm Creation'.

Cheers
Christian


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