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Mausy5043
Jun 19, 2017Aspirant
What value to set storm control rate [Mbps]
Hi, On my GS105Ev2 I wish to set a value for the storm rate limit (QoS > Broadcast filtering). I'm unsure what to set the limit at for each port, because when googling, I only find people talking...
- Jun 19, 2017
Hi Mausy5043
Thanks for your explanation :)
For the upcoming port you are right you can turn it off as it's unlikely that you will have a broadcast storm initiated from the internet connection.
For the rest I will suggest to keep it at arround 10Mbps as even the traffic per port could be little as the AP or the 100M connection , if you don't implement VLAN or Port Isolation the Broadcast traffic will automatically flow to all the ports.
Hope it helps!
Xavier Lleixa
NETGEAR CBU PLM
Mausy5043
Jun 19, 2017Aspirant
Thanks XavierLL for your prompt answer.
So lets see if I understand this.
Connections on my switch are
_ 1 <=> ISP modem @ 200Mbps 2 <=> Devolo Powerline to WiFi AP 3 <=> single Raspberry Pi (w/ 100M ethernetcard) 4 5 <=> Ethernet Gigabit LAN _
On port 1 (which connects to my ISP modem) I think I should disable storm control as I don't expect storm coming in from outside.
Port 2 goes to a WiFI AP at the top floor. It has little traffic. So I'd propose 1Mbps.
I have a Raspberry Pi connected to port 3. It has a 100Mbit NIC. It's not going to cause a storm on its own, me thinks. So, 0.5Mbps should suffice or should I disable it?
All the other traffic goes to/from the Gigabit LAN on port 5. I could set that at 16Mbps.
Have I got that about right?
XavierLL
Jun 19, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi Mausy5043
Thanks for your explanation :)
For the upcoming port you are right you can turn it off as it's unlikely that you will have a broadcast storm initiated from the internet connection.
For the rest I will suggest to keep it at arround 10Mbps as even the traffic per port could be little as the AP or the 100M connection , if you don't implement VLAN or Port Isolation the Broadcast traffic will automatically flow to all the ports.
Hope it helps!
Xavier Lleixa
NETGEAR CBU PLM
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