# Storm control
**URL:** https://forum.networklessons.com/t/storm-control/4446
**Category:** Routing & Switching
**Created:** [July 27, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/storm-control/4446 "2018-07-27T07:36:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@atsinyves](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/atsinyves)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/storm-control/4446/1 "2018-07-27T07:36:34Z")
hi all could gives you tell me the best pratice of configuration of strom control . how to configure the different threshold to avoid risque falldown the network.
tkanks for all reactions
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### Author:  [@lagapidis](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/lagapidis)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/storm-control/4446/2 "2018-07-28T15:48:36Z")
Hello Adia
Depending on the platform and the IOS version, there are various options available. There is a storm control option for several platforms. An example can be found at the following link.
> **[Catalyst 6500 Release 12.2SX Software Configuration Guide - Traffic Storm...](https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SX/configuration/guide/book/storm.html)**
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> Traffic Storm Control
I hope this has been helpful!
Laz
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### Author:  [@atsinyves](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/atsinyves)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/storm-control/4446/3 "2018-07-28T23:22:51Z")
thanks for your help but i would like to know how can i calculate the different threshold to protect my switch against storm . also i need best practice in production environment .
best regards
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### Author:  [@ReneMolenaar](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/ReneMolenaar)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/storm-control/4446/4 "2018-07-30T10:33:36Z")
Hi Adia,
Every network is different so it’s difficult to give a certain number to use for something like storm-control.
On a modern network, it’s very unlikely that you see crazy amounts of unicast/multicast/broadcast traffic unless you have a spanning-tree issue where traffic starts to loop around. Before you think about storm-control, take a look at the spanning-tree toolkit and things like BPDUguard.
In case something does go wrong, storm-control can be useful. You could start with some sniffing during workhours, see how much unicast/broadcast/multicast traffic there is on the network.
Configure storm-control with a value double of what you see and start with the SNMP trap. If nothing shows up, then switch to error-disabling the switchport (if that’s what you want).
This is a quick way to stop the storm if you have a broken NIC or something like that. This works well for a desktop computer but it’s maybe not the best option for uplinks or servers.
Rene
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### Author:  [@atsinyves](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/atsinyves)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/storm-control/4446/5 "2018-09-03T18:57:13Z")
thanks for your respond. ple