RE: Reducing Broadcast Storms

["Terry Baranski" <tbaranski () mail com>]

(You'll probably have more luck generating discussion on a Cisco-related
list or newsgroup.)

My advice is to ascertain why packet storms are occurring on your
network and then work on eliminating them as close to the source as
possible.  Switch level controls can be useful, but they're more of a
bandaid than a fix.  Broadcast/multicast storms generally shouldn't be
happening in the first place (and unicast storms definitely shouldn't be
happening) so it may be beneficial to look at this from a design point
of view -- if the packet storms are the result of a broken network or
broken hosts, switch level rate limiting isn't the optimal solution.

-Terry

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com] On Behalf 
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:30 AM
> To: 'firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com'
> Subject: [fw-wiz] Reducing Broadcast Storms
>
>
> I am looking for some ideas of how to block unicast, 
> multicast or broadcast
> storms from within my current network.  I have a large network with an
> installed base of various Cisco switches and routers.  Upon doing some
> research the only way I can find to limit the effect of a 
> broadcast storm is
> to use the port based command storm-control.  While this is 
> feasible, but
> time consuming, I would like to find a solution that can be 
> performed either
> for the entire switch, access router or preferably from the 
> distribution
> level of the network.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
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