Asante Technologies 6200 - Manual (Page 116)

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Important! This value must be between
4 and 30 seconds. See Table 7-1 for a
description of the Forward Delay timer.
3 Press Return .
The Forward Delay time is changed.
Setting Storm Detection Threshold
The IntraSwitch can detect the broadcast or multicast storm
occurrence on the network in order to prevent disaster from
temporary data loop. The threshold of the detection is the
number of broadcast and multicast packets detected per
second. To set the threshold:
1 Open the Spanning Tree Configuration
Menu by typing s in the Configuration Menu.
2 Type s to set the Storm Threshold.
3 Enter the new threshold value in the speci-
fied range.
4 Press Return . The Storm Threshold is
changed and is displayed at the top of the
screen next to “
Storm Threshold .”
Setting Storm Duration
The IntraSwitch can detect broadcast or multicast storm
occurrence on the network, based upon storm duration time.
To set the storm duration:
1 Open the Spanning Tree Configuration Menu
by typing
s in the Configuration Menu.
2 Type u to set the Storm Duration.
3 Enter the value in the specified range.
4 Press Return . The Storm Duration is changed
and displayed at the top next to Storm Dura-
tion.
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