Flood rate limitation, or storm control, is used to minimize the network impact of ingress flooding traffic. You can configure ports to accept a specified rate of packets per second. When that rate is exceeded, the port blocks traffic and drops subsequent packets until the traffic again drops below the configured rate.
show ports {port_list} rate-limit flood {no-refresh}
Note
ExtremeXOS switches implement rate limiting granularity at millisecond intervals. The traffic bursts are monitored at millisecond intervals and the actions are performed within sub-seconds (when applicable). When the switch evaluates the traffic pattern for bursts against the configured value in pps, the value is calibrated on a per-millisecond interval. For example, using the configure port 1 rate-limit flood broadcast1000 command would be equivalent to 1 packet per millisecond.
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