Enables egress flooding on one or more ports. You can further identify the type of packets to flood on the specified ports.
all_cast | Specifies enabling egress flooding for all packets on specified ports. |
broadcast | Specifies enabling egress flooding only for broadcast packets. |
multicast | Specifies enabling egress flooding only for multicast packets. |
unicast | Specifies enabling egress flooding only for unknown unicast packets. |
port_list | Specifies one or more ports or slots and ports. |
all | Specifies all ports on the switch. |
Enabled for all packet types.
Use this command to re-enable egress flooding that you previously disabled using the disable flooding ports command.
You can disable egress flooding for unicast, multicast, or broadcast MAC addresses, as well as for all packets on the ports. The default behavior is enabled egress flooding for all packet types.
The following command enables unicast flooding on ports 13-17 on a switch:
enable flooding unicast port 13-17
This command was first available in ExtremeXOS 11.2.
This command is available on ExtremeSwitching X435, X440-G2, X450-G2, X460-G2, X465, X590, X620, and X695 series switches.