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4.1.14 Storm Control

Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is malfunctioning, or if application

programs are not well designed or properly configured. If there is too much broadcast traffic on

your network, performance can be severely degraded or everything can come to complete

halt.

You can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold for broadcast traffic

for each port. Any broadcast packets exceeding the specified threshold will then be dropped.

Storm Control Configuration

There are three types of traffic which can be rate limited: broadcast, multicast and flooded

Unicast.