unicast-suppression

Use unicast-suppression to enable unknown unicast storm suppression and set the unknown unicast storm suppression threshold.

Use undo unicast-suppression to disable unknown unicast storm suppression.

Syntax

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

undo unicast-suppression

Default

Ethernet interfaces do not suppress unknown unicast traffic.

Views

Ethernet interface view

Predefined user roles

network-admin

Parameters

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

pps max-pps: Specifies the maximum number of unknown unicast 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 unknown unicast 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 unknown unicast storm suppression feature limits the size of unknown unicast traffic to a threshold on an interface. When the unknown unicast traffic on the interface exceeds this threshold, the system discards packets until the unknown unicast traffic drops below this threshold.

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

For the unknown unicast traffic suppression result to be determined, do not configure both the storm constrain unicast command and the unicast-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:

To determine the suppression threshold that takes effect, see the prompts on the switch.

Examples

# Set the unknown unicast storm 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] unicast-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

broadcast-suppression

multicast-suppression