Dell PowerConnect 5424 Command Line Interface Guide

174 Ethernet Configuration Commands
User Guidelines
• Use the port storm-control Broadcast rate Interface Configuration command to the set the maximum
rate.
• Use the port storm-control include-multicast Interface Configuration command to count also
Multicast packets and optionally unknown Unicast packets in the storm control calculation.
• The command can be enabled on specific port only if rate-limit Interface Configuration command is
not enabled on that port.
Example
The following example enables Broadcast storm control on port g5.
port storm-control broadcast rate
The port storm-control broadcast rate Interface Configuration mode command configures the
maximum Broadcast rate. Use the no form of this command to return to the default value.
Syntax
port storm-control broadcast rate rate
no port storm-control broadcast rate
• rate — Maximum kilobytes per second of Broadcast, Unicast and Multicast traffic on a port.
(Rate: 3.5M-1G)
Default Configuration
The default storm control Broadcast rate is 3.5M.
Command Mode
Interface Configuration (Ethernet) mode
User Guidelines
• Use the port storm-control broadcast enable Interface Configuration mode command to enable
Broadcast storm control.
• The calculated rate includes the 20 bytes of Ethernet framing overhead.
Console(config)# interface ethernet g5
Console(config-if)# port storm-control broadcast enable
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Dell PowerConnect 5424 Specifications

General

Ports	24 x 10/100/1000Base-T
Switching Capacity	48 Gbps
Forwarding Rate	35.7 Mpps
VLAN Support	Yes
Rack Mountable	Yes
Power Supply	Internal
MAC Address Table Size	8K entries
RAM	128 MB
Flash Memory	16 MB
Voltage Required	100-240V AC
Management	Web, CLI, SNMP
Operating Temperature	0°C to 45°C
Storage Temperature	-20°C to 70°C
Humidity	10% to 90% (non-condensing)
Standards Compliance	IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab
Remote Management Protocol	SNMP, RMON, Telnet
Features	QoS, VLAN, Link Aggregation