Configuring Port-Based Traffic; Control; Port-Based Traffic Control Overview - Dell PowerEdge M420 Configuration Manual

Configuring Port-Based Traffic

Control

This chapter describes how to configure features that provide traffic control
through filtering the type of traffic or limiting the speed or amount of traffic
on a per-port basis. The features this section describes includes flow control,
storm control, protected ports, priority-based flow control (PFC) and Link
Local Protocol Filtering (LLPF), which is also known as Cisco Protocol
Filtering.
The topics covered in this chapter include:
•

Port-Based Traffic Control Overview

• Default Port-Based Traffic Control Values
• Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control (Web)
• Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control (CLI)
• Port-Based Traffic Control Configuration Examples
Port-Based Traffic Control Overview
Table 24-1 provides a summary of the features this chapter describes.
Table 24-1. Port-Based Traffic Control Features
Feature
Flow control
PFC
Storm control
Description
Allows traffic transmission between a switch port and another
Ethernet device to be paused for a specified period of time when
congestion occurs.
Provides a way to distinguish which traffic on a physical link is
paused when congestion occurs based on the priority of the
traffic.
Limits the amount of broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast
frames accepted and forwarded by the switch.
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