Re: Storm control in 3550 and 3560 switches

For the Cisco 3560, multicast traffic is blocked by the storm control
multicast method.

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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
<anantha.natarajan_at_gravitant.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>   My understanding on ,Multicast storm control on 3550 switch is as below
>
>   "When the rate of multicast frames increased more than the specified rate
> on the Multicast storm-control configuration,it will block all multicast
> frames exceeded and also even all unicast/broadcast traffic is dropped until
> the multicast rate on the port is decreased than the threshold
> defined.Exceptions would be BPDU's and CDP frames".
>
> Is my above understanding right ?.If so ,my questions is
>
> Does the above statement is also true for 3560 switches.For some reason.I
> couldn't find a reference on the 3560 config guide,unless I missed it.
>
> Thank you for the assistance.
>
> Regards
> Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
>
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