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The Storm Control is similar to Rate Control. Rate Control filters all the traffic over the
threshold you input by UI. Storm Control allows user to define the Rate for specific Packet
Types.
Packet type: You can assign the Rate for specific packet types based on packet number
per second. The packet types of the Ingress Rule listed here include Broadcast, DLF
(Destination Lookup Failure) and Multicast. Choose Enable/Disable to enable or
disable the storm control of specific port.
Rate: This column allows you to manually assign the limit rate of the port. The unit is
packets per second. The limit range is from 1 to 262143 packet/sec, zero means no limit.
The maximum available value of Fast Ethernet interface is 148810, this is the maximum
packet number of the 100M throughput.
Enter the Rate field of the port you want assign, type the new value and click Enter key first.
After assigned or changed the value for all the ports you want configure.
Click on Apply to
apply the configuration of all ports. The Apply command applied all the ports’ storm control
value, it may take some time and the web interface become slow, this is normal condition.
4.3.5
Port Trunking
Port Trunking configuration allows you to group multiple Ethernet ports in parallel to
increase link bandwidth. The aggregated ports can be viewed as one physical port so that
the bandwidth is higher than merely one single Ethernet port. The member ports of the
same trunk group can balance the loading and backup for each other. Port Trunking
feature is usually used when you need higher bandwidth for backbone network. This is an
inexpensive way for you to transfer more data.
