Re: Storm control in 3550 and 3560 switches

Thank You Iwan ....

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Iwan Hoogendoorn <iwan_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:

> For the Cisco 3560, multicast traffic is blocked by the storm control
> multicast method.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Iwan Hoogendoorn
> CCIE #13084 (R&S / Security / SP)
> Sr. Support Engineer  IPexpert, Inc.
> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com <http://www.ipexpert.com/>
>
>
> 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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