- Written by Ryan Lui
- Posted on August 21, 2023
- Updated on August 23, 2023
- 5787 Views
Storm control is a feature that allows the data plane to drop excess broadcast, unknown unicast, and/or multicast packets if the ingress packet rate exceeds a user-configurable threshold.
- Written by Pankaj Srivastava
- Posted on October 24, 2024
- Updated on October 24, 2024
- 484 Views
Storm control enables traffic policing on floods of packets on L2 switching networks. Support for counting dropped packets and bytes on interfaces where storm control metering is provisioned. Both packet and bytes count are supported and will be displayed. Drop logging on storm-control discards is also supported.
- Written by Ryan Lui
- Posted on December 14, 2020
- Updated on December 14, 2020
- 7368 Views
The existing storm control interface configuration mode CLI commands have been extended to support a new
- Written by Yongxiang Chen
- Posted on February 19, 2021
- Updated on February 19, 2021
- 8094 Views
4.25.2F introduces storm control with packet per second support in the platforms listed below. TOI describing the
- Written by Praveen Kumar Yadav
- Posted on November 16, 2023
- Updated on November 16, 2023
- 4221 Views
Storm control enables traffic policing on floods of packets on L2 switching networks. Support was enabled for Front panel ports and Lag in eos-4-25-2f with storm-control-speed-rate-support. Now, storm control will be supported per subinterfaces( both ethernet and port-channel). Scale of subinterfaces is 4095.
- Written by Yongxiang Chen
- Posted on February 19, 2021
- Updated on June 26, 2023
- 9286 Views
Storm control enables traffic policing on floods of packets on L2 switching networks. The documentation describes
- Written by Vincent (Chia Hsuan)
- Posted on September 24, 2024
- Updated on September 24, 2024
- 966 Views
A traffic storm is a flood of packets entering a network, resulting in excessive traffic and degraded performance. Storm control prevents network disruptions by limiting traffic beyond specified thresholds on individual physical LAN interfaces. Storm control monitors inbound traffic levels over one-second intervals and compares the traffic level with a specified benchmark. The storm-control command configures and enables storm control on the configuration mode physical interface.