This section describes how to configure traffic suppression in a specified virtual switch instance (VSI) to prevent a large volume of traffic from overloading the network.
On an Ethernet network, to manage user traffic, user bandwidth must be assigned. In addition, to ensure secure transmission of unicast traffic and proper bandwidth utilization, unknown unicast, multicast, and broadcast traffic must be suppressed.
On most networks, the unicast traffic volume is far higher than the broadcast traffic volume. If broadcast traffic is not suppressed, in case of heavy broadcast traffic, a great amount of network bandwidth is consumed, causing the network performance to deteriorate and even communication interruption.
Before configuring traffic suppression, connect interfaces and configure their physical parameters so that they can go Up physically.
The system view is displayed.
The VSI view is displayed.
Traffic suppression is enabled in the VSI.
Broadcast traffic over the VSI AC is suppressed.
Multicast traffic over the VSI AC is suppressed.
Unknown unicast traffic over the VSI AC is suppressed.
The configuration is committed.
After configuring traffic suppression, check the configurations.
Run the display traffic-statistics vsi vsi-name suppression uni command to check traffic suppression statistics in a VSI.