I have a Dell PowerConnect 5448 switch. It has many of the Cisco IOS commands, but not all of them. I’m haveing a terrible issue trying to control the broadcast traffic within the network and the only “feature” it has to help with this is “storm control” but it detects in megabytes/sec rather than packets/sec and only goes as low as 3.5 megabytes/sec. I need a much lower tolerance if possible.
Now my second idea that may actually help figure out Where all the broadcasts are coming from, is to use VLANs. Unfortunately, I’m not a networking person and from what I’ve read, it’s only made me more confused so I figured I’d just ask.
I have a setup where I have 1 main L3 switch that manages all the other rooms. Each room has 1 “home run” back to my switch. Each of those rooms is broken up by dummy switches (4-5 eight-twelve port switches per room). There are 9 rooms like this, each with a home run back to my switch. There are also 3 servers directly connected to my switch that each of the rooms needs access too. There’s also 1 interface that goes to another switch on another domain that these rooms need access too. On this interface, only 1 IP on port 443 should be allowed and all other packets dropped.
I can’t think of any other info off the top of my head that may be needed. I’d like to isolate each room in it’s own VLAN to keep down the broadcasting. None of the individual rooms needs to talk to the other directly, they only need to talk back to the servers and the 1 interface and that’s it.
If possible, I’d love to setup an ACL to drop all broadcasts, but I don’t even know where to start on that. Since I have no testing enviroment for this, I really can’t just “figure it out”. Any help would be greatly appreciated and if more info is needed, I’ll be on all day lol.
