Re: traffic suppression - storm control 3560

A multicast is a broadcast, but a broadcast is not a multicast.

Remember that the storm control features are layer 2 based.

Broadcast is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Mulicast starts with 01: for IPv4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_address

HTH,

Michael Kiefer

CCIE#34420 (R&S)

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Aaron <aaron1_at_gvtc.com> wrote:

> Does bcast and mcast storm control have anything to do with each other or
> are they treated completely separate? Just wondering if there is any
> subtleties or inter-relationships that bcast and mcast have with one
> another
> in 3560 storm control/traffic suppression.
>
>
>
> Aaron
>
> switch(config-if)#storm-control ?
>
> action Action to take for storm-control
>
> broadcast Broadcast address storm control
>
> multicast Multicast address storm control
>
> unicast Unicast address storm control
>
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