Overview of Forward Control
This chapter describes the following aspects of forward control in a network:
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Bandwidth limit for a port: You can shape the outgoing or egress traffic transmission rate on a device by setting the bandwidth limit for its port.
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Storm control: The storm-control function prevents a traffic storm from occurring because of excessive messages in the network. The function monitors the number of messages on each port to understand the bandwidth usage, and ensures that the bandwidth is within the configured threshold. It discards all the packets that are received after the threshold is reached.