Re: traffic suppression - storm control 3560

I meant to say it has a 1 as the least significant bit of the most
significant byte.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Michael Kiefer <mjkiefer_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> A multicast is a broadcast, but a broadcast is not a multicast.
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> Remember that the storm control features are layer 2 based.
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> Broadcast is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
> Mulicast starts with 01: for IPv4
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_address
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> HTH,
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> Michael Kiefer
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> CCIE#34420 (R&S)
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> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Aaron <aaron1_at_gvtc.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Aaron
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>> switch(config-if)#storm-control ?
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>> action Action to take for storm-control
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>> broadcast Broadcast address storm control
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>> multicast Multicast address storm control
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>> unicast Unicast address storm control
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