broadcast-suppression

Use broadcast-suppression to enable broadcast suppression and set the broadcast suppression threshold.

Use undo broadcast-suppression to disable broadcast suppression.

Syntax

broadcast-suppression { ratio | pps max-pps | kbps max-kbps }

undo broadcast-suppression

Default

Ethernet interfaces do not suppress broadcast traffic.

Views

Ethernet interface view

Predefined user roles

network-admin

Parameters

ratio: Sets the broadcast suppression threshold as a percentage of the interface bandwidth. The value range for this argument is 0 to 100. A smaller value means that less broadcast traffic is allowed to pass through.

pps max-pps: Specifies the maximum number of broadcast packets that the interface can forward per second. The value range for the max-pps argument (in pps) is 0 to 1.4881 × the interface bandwidth.

kbps max-kbps: Specifies the maximum number of kilobits of broadcast traffic that the Ethernet interface can forward per second. The value range for this argument (in kbps) is 0 to the interface bandwidth.

Usage guidelines

The broadcast storm suppression features limits the size of broadcast traffic to a threshold on an interface. When the broadcast traffic on the interface exceeds this threshold, the system drops packets until the traffic drops below this threshold.

Both the storm-constrain command and the broadcast-suppression command can suppress broadcast storms on a port. The broadcast-suppression command uses the chip to physically suppress broadcast traffic. It has less influence on the device performance than the storm-constrain command, which uses software to suppress broadcast traffic.

For the traffic suppression result to be determined, do not configure both the storm constrain broadcast command and the broadcast-suppression command on an interface.

When you configure the suppression threshold in kbps, the actual suppression threshold might be different from the configured one as follows:

For the suppression threshold that takes effect, see the prompt on the device.

Examples

# Set the broadcast suppression threshold to 10000 kbps on Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/1.

<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] interface ten-gigabitethernet 1/0/1
[Sysname-Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/1] broadcast-suppression kbps 10000
The actual value is 10048 on port Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/1 currently.

The output shows that the value that takes effect is 10048 kbps (157 times of 64), because the chip only supports step 64.

Related commands

multicast-suppression

unicast-suppression