Hi,
I've been having some troubles with broadcast storms on my company's VOIP network (whichs is isolated from the rest physically). I wanna know how I should configure storm-control on my Dell PCT6224 and 6248 so that the switches can block any overflow of broadcast packets.
But I have a doubt about the value I should use. Here is what the switch help command say: "Enter the storm-control threshold as percent of port speed. Percent of port speed is converted to PacketsPerSecond based on 512 byte average packet size and applied to HW..."
I wonder if my calculations are right:
The ports in which the config will be applied are all in 1Gbps. So if I want to put a 1% threshold the switch will convert to (1000000000*0.001) / (512*8) ~= 2441.4 pps.
My network runs on a 0.39 pps when its operating correctly so it wont interfere on the normal broadcast traffic.