A broadcast storm occurs when a packet triggers multiple responses from all hosts on a network or when computers attempt to respond to a host that never replies. As a result, duplicated packets are continuously created and circulated in the network, thus reducing network performance or even rendering it inoperable.
Multiple simultaneous broadcasts that typically absorb all the available network bandwidth and can cause a network to fail. Broadcast storms can be due to faulty network devices.
Excessive one-to-many or many-to-many transmissions, especially troublesome on Ethernet networks.
Network messages that overload the network capacity. Broadcast storms also occur when old and new TCP/IP routers are on the same network.
network is saturated by false messages sent out by a machine in error or deliberately by a hacker or virus doing a 'Denial of Service' attack.
An excessive amount of broadcast messages simultaneously transmitted across a network by a single port. Forwarded message responses are heaped onto the network, overloading network resources or causing the network to time out. For more information about broadcast storms, see "Defining LAG Parameters". CDB Configuration Data Base. A file containing a device's configuration information.
a peculiar phenomenon in which a message is broadcast across a network, causing a response to be returned
a result of an excessive amount of broadcast messages simultaneously transmitted across a network by a single port
Undesirable network event where many broadcasts are sent all at once, using substantial network bandwidth and, typically, causing network time-outs.
An incorrect packet broadcast onto a network that causes multiple hosts to respond all at once, typically with equally incorrect packets which causes the storm to grow exponentially in severity.
A condition that can occur on broadcast type networks such as Ethernet. This can happen for a number of reasons ranging from hardware malfunction to configuration errors and bandwidth saturation.
Undesirable network event in which many broadcasts are sent simultaneously across all network segments. A broadcast storm uses substantial network bandwidth and, typically, causes network time-outs.
Congestion on a network caused when multiple hosts respond all at once to a transmission from a workstation, which causes the performance of the network to slow exponentially or even halt operations.
