broadcast suppression on catalyst 6000

[kbe]

Hi,

The port based broadcast suppression command on Catalyst 6000 CatOS provides a keyword " UNICAST".

C6506 (enable) set port broadcast 1/1 1% ?

multicast Enable/disable multicast suppression

unicast Enable/disable unicast suppression

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C6506 (enable) set port broadcast 1/1 1%

Can anyone knows if the keyword " unicast" is related to " unknow unicast " limiting the unicast flooding or It's related to all unicast traffic on that port ? ( the configuration guide and the command reference guide are not clear about that )

TIA

Regards

[owillins]

My guess is that it refers to all unicast traffic on that port. See the last example in the reference below.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/sw_7_2/cmd_ref/set_po_r.htm#28114

Also note that Broadcast suppression is used to limit the broadcast traffic during a broadcast storm caused by a spanning tree loop. Please be careful when you use this feature for any other reason.