[c-nsp] Broadcast storm control

Saku Ytti saku+cisco-nsp at ytti.fi
Fri Nov 9 12:21:53 EST 2007


On (2007-11-09 13:44 +0100), Daniel Dib wrote:
 
> I don't know your topology but I'm not sure why you would want to 
> connect customers directly to a 7600? Why not put a router or l3-device 
> in between, then broadcasts will be filtered anyway.

Luckily I don't do almost at all L2 in 7600's, but lot of people can't
live with that kind of topology. Also even if you have L3 port, your
control-plane will go down on STP flood received on the L3 port (tested)
not sure about unknown unicast on L3, prolly not relevant.

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  ++ytti


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