Understanding Traffic Storm Control
A traffic storm occurs when packets flood the LAN, creating excessive traffic and degrading network performance. The Traffic Storm Control feature prevents LAN ports from being disrupted by a broadcast, multicast, or unicast traffic storm on physical interfaces.
On a Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregated Services Router, you can configure a bits per second policer committed information rate (CIR) on a service instance for broadcast, multicast, or unknown unicast traffic. The Hardware Assistant Policer Engine ensures that the rate does not exceed the configured policer rate. When the traffic exceeds the configured rate, packets are dropped to control the traffic.
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Traffic storm control is disabled by default. |