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Rate Limit Configuration
Type of Port: You can define the certain port as Policer and Shaper before you
set up the rate limit.
No Limit: This drop-down menu allows you to specify that the selected port
will have no bandwidth limit.
Rate Limit: There is also allow you to enter the data rate, in Kbits per second,
this can limit for the selected port. The value is between 128kbps – 3968kbps.
Figure 2-11
Storm Control
Broadcast storms may occur when a device on your network is malfunctioning,
or if application programs are not well designed or properly configured. If there
is too much broadcast traffic on your network, performance can be severely
degraded or everything can come to complete halt.
You can protect your network from broadcast storms by setting a threshold for
broadcast traffic for each port. Any broadcast packets exceeding the specified
threshold will then be dropped.
Storm Control Configuration
There are three type of traffic which can be rate limited, including broadcast
multicast frame and Flooded Uncast Rate.