Symptom

While testing storm control using bits per second it was notice the counters within the show storm do not match the show interface. This causes inconsistent test results where storm control activates below traffic threshold.

Conditions

Testing of Storm control

Workaround

Further Problem Description

920-4SZ-3#show int ten 0/0/3 TenGigabitEthernet0/0/3 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is 2xGE-4x10GE-FIXED, address is a023.9f88.0883 (bia a023.9f88.0883) Description: Connection to IXIA 4/6 MTU 9000 bytes, BW 10000000 Kbit/sec, DLY 10 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set Keepalive set (10 sec) Full Duplex, 10000Mbps, link type is auto, media type is SFP-SR output flow-control is unsupported, input flow-control is on ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00 Last input never, output never, output hang never Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:00:51 Input queue: 0/375/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0 Queueing strategy: fifo Output queue: 0/40 (size/max) 30 second input rate 8000 bits/sec, 11 packets/sec <<<< NOT VALURE @ 8000 bps 30 second output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 573 packets input, 57300 bytes, 0 no buffer Received 573 broadcasts (0 IP multicasts) 920-4SZ-3# 920-4SZ-3# 920-4SZ-3#sho storm-control broadcast Interface Type Filter State Upper Lower Current --------- ------ ------------- ----------- ----------- ---------- Te0/0/3 Bcast Forwarding 20k bps 10k bps 10.56k bps <<<<< NOTE WRONG VALUE 920-4SZ-3#