Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Command Reference Guide

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Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Command Reference—Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG and IOS 15.1(2)SG)
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Chapter 2 Cisco IOS Commands for the Catalyst 4500 Series Switches
show storm-control
This is an example of output from the show storm-control multicast command on a Supervisor
Engine 6-E:
Switch# show storm-control multicast //Supervisor Engine 6-E
Interface Filter State Broadcast Multicast Level
--------- ------------- --------- --------- -----
Fa6/2 Blocking Enabled Enabled 61%
Switch#
This is an example of output from the show storm-control command on a Supervisor Engine 6-E when
no keywords are entered:
Switch# show storm-control
Interface Filter State Broadcast Multicast Level
--------- ------------- --------- --------- -----
Fa6/1 Blocking Enabled Disabled 81%
Fa6/2 Blocking Enabled Enabled 61%
Switch#
This is an example of output from the show storm-control command for a specified interface:
Switch# show storm-control fastethernet2/17
Interface Filter State Level Current
--------- ------------- ------- -------
Fa2/17 Forwarding 50.00% 0.00%
Switch#
This is an example of output from the show storm-control command for a specified interface on a
Supervisor Engine 6-E:
Switch# show storm-control interface fastethernet6/1
Interface Filter State Broadcast Multicast Level
--------- ------------- ------- ------- -----
Fa6/1 Blocking Enabled Disabled 81%
Switch#
Table 2-40 describes the fields in the show storm-control display.
Table 2-40 show storm-control Field Descriptions
Field Description
Interface Displays the ID of the interface.
Filter State Displays the status of the filter:
• Blocking—Storm control is enabled, and a storm has occurred.
• Forwarding—Storm control is enabled, and no storms have occurred.
• Inactive—Storm control is disabled.
Level Displays the threshold level set on the interface for broadcast traffic.
Current Displays the bandwidth utilization of broadcast traffic as a percentage of
total available bandwidth. This field is valid only when storm control is
enabled.
Note N/A is displayed for interfaces that do storm control in the hardware.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E