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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Enable and configure storm prevention in a network device
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On 04/05/2018 01:20 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:14:49 -0400
> 
>> Is there a standard way to implement and configure storm prevention
>> in a Linux network device?
> 
> What kind of "storm", an interrupt storm?
> 

I would assume Murali is referring to L2 broadcast storms which is
common in switches. There is not an API for that AFAICT and I am not
sure what a proper API would look like.
-- 
Florian