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Avaya P580 User Manual

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Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switch User Guide, v5.3.1

Chapter 5

Disable – If you do not want this port to limit the number of
unknown unicast and multicast packets it tried to forward

Enable (include Known Multicasts) – If you want to
optionally include known multicast packets in this
percentage to further decrease the possibility of the port’s
output buffer being overwhelmed.

16. Select the percentage of a port’s traffic that can be unknown

unicast and broadcast packets from the Flood Rate Limit
Rate
field pull-down menu.

* Note: Set this value lower if the port is having

overflow problems.

17. Open the Flood Rate Limit Burst Size pull down menu.

18. Select a packet limit for the number of packets allowed in a

single burst. The values are 1 to 2048.

* Note: Set this value lower than 1024 (the output

buffer’s capacity) for Fast Ethernet ports. Also
set this value lower if the port is experiencing
overflow problems.

19. Select Enable from the Pace Priority Mode pull-down

menu if you want this port to recognize and use 3Com’s
PACE priority mechanism.

20. Click APPLY to save your changes, or CANCEL to restore

previous settings.

Table 5-4 describes in detail the Fast Ethernet port parameters:

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