• Due to a hardware limitation, the output for the
show interface counters storm-control
command does
not show ARP suppressions when storm control is configured and the interface is actually suppressing
ARP broadcast traffic. This limitation can lead to the configured action not being triggered but the
incoming ARP broadcast traffic being correctly storm suppressed.
• Due to a hardware limitation, the packet drop counter cannot distinguish between packet drops caused
by a traffic storm and packet drops caused by other discarded input frames. This limitation can lead to
the configured action being triggered even in the absence of a traffic storm.
• Due to a hardware limitation, storm suppression packet statistics are not supported on uplink ports.
• Due to a hardware limitation, storm suppression packet statistics do not include broadcast traffic on
VLANs with an active switched virtual interface (SVI).
• Due to a design limitation, storm suppression packet statistics do not work if the configured level is 0.0,
which is meant to suppress all incoming storm packets.
• Traffic storm control is not supported on 100G ports on the Cisco Nexus 9300 Series switches. It is
supported on the Cisco Nexus 9300-EX/FX and FX2 Series switches and the Cisco Nexus 9500 Series
switches with the 9700-EX/FX line card.
• Traffic storm control is not supported on FEX interfaces.
• Traffic storm control is only for ingress traffic, specifically for unknown unicast, unknown multicast,
and broadcast traffic.
• The following guidelines and limitations apply to Cisco Nexus 9200 Series switches:
• Traffic storm control with unknown multicast traffic is not supported.
• Packet-based statistics are not supported for traffic storm control as the policer supports only
byte-based statistics.
• Traffic storm control is not supported for copy-to-CPU packets.
Default Settings for Traffic Storm Control
This table lists the default settings for traffic storm control parameters.
Table 37: Default Traffic Storm Control Parameters
Default
Parameters
Disabled
Traffic storm control
100
Threshold percentage
Configuring Traffic Storm Control
You can set the percentage of total available bandwidth that the controlled traffic can use.
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Default Settings for Traffic Storm Control