RE: broadcast storm suppression?

From: Lykourgiotis Paraskevas (ParaskevasL@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed May 02 2001 - 03:59:11 GMT-3


   
You can try, may be, traffic-shaping using MAC-addresses. Note that the
broadcast mac-address is ffff.ffff.ffff

Regards,

Paraskevas

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff K. [mailto:jeffbk@austin.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:50 PM
To: caolw; Groupstudy
Subject: Re: broadcast storm suppression?

True, but what Netguy was asking was how you can enable broadcast
suppression on a router that is bridging...
----- Original Message -----
From: "caolw" <caolw@fosco.com.cn>
To: "Groupstudy" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: broadcast storm suppression?

> switch can controll the percentage of broadcast.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Netguy" <netguy73@yahoo.com>
> To: "Jeff K." <jeffbk@austin.rr.com>; "Andrew" <arousch@home.com>; "caolw"
<caolw@fosco.com.cn>; "Groupstudy" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: broadcast storm suppression?
>
>
> > Yes sir, thats what i meant.
> > --- "Jeff K." <jeffbk@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> > > If the router is bridging and you want to enable
> > > broadcast suppression, is
> > > there a way to do it? I thought that is what Netguy
> > > meant when he asked...
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Andrew" <arousch@home.com>
> > > To: "Netguy" <netguy73@yahoo.com>; "caolw"
> > > <caolw@fosco.com.cn>;
> > > "Groupstudy" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:45 PM
> > > Subject: Re: broadcast storm suppression?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Well considering it's a ROUTER and not a SWITCH it
> > > will not propagate a
> > > > broadcast storm.
> > > >
> > > > At 05:32 PM 4/30/01 -0700, Netguy wrote:
> > > > >is there any command that can be used on either
> > > token
> > > > >or ethernet interface to prevent or suppress
> > > broadcast
> > > > >storms?
> > > > >I know how to do it on Catalyst, but can it be
> > > done on
> > > > >router interfaces?
> > > > >
> > > >



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