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Rx Rate

Display the current Rx rate limitation.

Link Speed

Display the current link speed information.

4.3.4 Broadcast Storm Control

This section introduces detail 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 screens 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.

Buttons

: Click to apply changes