ZyXEL Communications GS-1524 User Manual

Chapter 12 Port Rate Limit and Storm Control

GS-1524/GS-1548 User’s Guide

The following table describes the labels in this screen. 

Table 24   Broadcast Storm Control 

Port

Select the port number for which you want to configure storm control settings or 

select Apply settings to all ports to configure all the ports at once.

Storm Control 

Type

Select
Disabled - to turn off this feature.
Broadcast only - to only specify a limit for the amount of broadcast packets 

received per second.
Broadcast and multicast - to specify a limit for the amount of broadcast and 

multicast packets received per second. 
Broadcast and unknown unicast - to specify a limit for the amount of broadcast 

and DLF packets received per second. 
Broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast - to specify a limit for the amount of 

broadcast, multicast and DLF (Destination Lookup Failure) packets received per 

second. 

Storm Control 

Rate

Select the number of packets (of the type specified in the Storm Control Type field) 

per second the Switch can receive per second.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes.