From: Charles Church (cchurch@wamnet.com)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 09:36:59 GMT-3
If you've got a Cisco switch going to the router, I believe you can limit
broadcasts to a number per second or a percentage of bandwidth. Are they IP
broadcasts or something else? Once you've got the router somewhat
protected, dig into your layer 2 device statistics and find the source(s).
Rate limiting might be able to help also until you track down the source.
Is it possible it's a mis-configured IP helper statement or a spanning
tree/bridging problem somewhere. Checking device logs might be helpful as
well. Good luck.
Chuck Church
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Wam!Net Government Services
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
SHARMA,MOHIT (HP-Germany,ex1)
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 5:00 AM
To: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
Subject: Broadcast storm- Please HELP
Hello All,
I am facing a broadcast storm on one of our customer backbone routers. I can
see in the ethernet counter that it is receiving the broadcast at the rate
of more than 10000 packets per second.
I already have net flow on the interface but 'm not able to find the root
cause. I am scared that this storm may bring the router down.
Can somebody please help or give some suggestions to deal with this
situation.
Thanks for your help.
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