DES-3000 Series Layer 2 Switch CLI Reference Manual 
 
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config traffic control 
mechanism to determine the Packet Storm occurring. Once 
detected, the port will deny all incoming traffic to the port except 
STP BPDU packets, which are essential in keeping the Spanning 
Tree operational on the Switch. If the countdown timer has expired 
and yet the Packet Storm continues, the port will be placed in 
Shutdown Forever mode and is no longer operational until the user 
manually resets the port. Choosing this option obligates the user to 
configure the time_interval field as well, which will provide packet 
count samplings from the Switch’s chip to determine if a Packet 
Storm is occurring. 
threshold <value 64-1024000>  The upper threshold at which the specified 
traffic control is switched on. The <value> is the number of 
broadcast/multicast/unicast packets, in Kilo bits per second (Kbps), received 
by the Switch that will trigger the storm traffic control measures. The default 
setting is 64. 
time_interval – The Interval will set the time between Multicast and Broadcast 
packet counts sent from the Switch’s chip to the Traffic Control function. 
These packet counts are the determining factor in deciding when incoming 
packets exceed the Threshold value.  
  sec 5-30 – The Interval may be set between 5 and 30 seconds with the 
default setting of 5 seconds. 
countdown – The countdown timer is set to determine the amount of time, in 
minutes, that the Switch will wait before shutting down the port that is 
experiencing a traffic storm. This parameter is only useful for ports configured 
as shutdown in the action field of this command and therefore will not 
operate for Hardware based Traffic Control implementations. 
  0 – 0 is the default setting for this field and 0 will denote that the port will 
never shutdown. 
  minutes 5-30 – Select a time from 5 to 30 minutes that the Switch will 
wait before shutting down. Once this time expires and the port is still 
experiencing packet storms, the port will be placed in shutdown forever 
mode and then needs to be manually recovered. 
Restrictions Only Administrator-level users can issue this command. 
Example usage: 
To configure traffic control and enable broadcast storm control system wide: 
DES-3026:4#config traffic control all 
broadcast enable 
Command: config traffic control all broadcast 
enable 
 
Success. 
 
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