Re: Broadcast strom contol - Unicast traffic affected

From: marc abel <marcabel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:23:11 -0500

Most likely because you blocked ARP.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Vibeesh S <vibselva_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We had some broadcast storms in our network. I applied the following
> command on the uplink switch on selected ports to have zero broadcast
> packets;
>
> *storm-control broadcast level pps 0*
>
> This blocked out even the unicast traffic creating some panic, can anybody
> explain why this happened.
>
> Thanks,
> Vibs
>
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