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24 Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control This chapter describes how to configure features that provide traffic control through filtering the type of traffic or limiting the speed or amount of traffic on a per-port basis. The features this section describes includes flow control, storm control, protected ports, priority-based flow control (PFC) and Link Local Protocol Filtering (LLPF), which is also known as Cisco Protocol Filtering. The topics covered in this chapter include: • Port-Based Traffic Control Overview • Default Port-Based Traffic Control Values • Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control (Web) • Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control (CLI) • Port-Based Traffic Control Configuration Examples Port-Based Traffic Control Overview Table 24-1 provides a summary of the features this chapter describes. Table 24-1. Port-Based Traffic Control Features Feature Flow control PFC Storm control Description Allows traffic transmission between a switch port and another Ethernet device to be paused for a specified period of time when congestion occurs. Provides a way to distinguish which traffic on a physical link is paused when congestion occurs based on the priority of the traffic. Limits the amount of broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast frames accepted and forwarded by the switch. Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control 691