PLANET FGSD-1008HPS - Manual (Page 50)

User’s Manual of FGSD / FGSW Web Smart PoE Switch
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4.3.4 Broadcast Storm Control
This section introduces detailed settings of Broadcast Storm Control function of PoE Web Smart Ethernet Switch. There is an
unknown unicast storm rate control, unknown multicast storm rate control, and a broadcast storm rate control. These only affect
flooded frames, i.e. frames with a (VLAN ID, DMAC) pair not present on the MAC Address table. The broadcast storm control is
used to block the excessive broadcast packets, the number ranging from 1 to 63. For example, the broadcast storm of the
port1~6 are enabled and threshold is set to 10. The broadcast packets will be dropped when broadcast packets are more than
threshold setting (packet length is 64 bytes).
The Storm Control Global Setting and Information screen in Figure 4-3-6 appears.
Figure 4-3-6 Storm Control Global Setting Page Screenshot
The page includes the following fields:
Object Description
 Threshold Configure the Broadcast Threshold for the selected port.
Valid values are in the range from 1 to 63; Per unit is 50us for Gigabit speed,
500us for 100Mbps speed and 5000us for 10Mbps speed
 Enable Port Select port number for this checkbox list to enable the function.
Button
: Click to apply changes