The policy used by the storm control process to resume normal operation, once storm control action has been initiated. If continue-control(1) is specified, the storm control action continues to be in effect, until the user modifies one of the following storm control parameters: eSwitchStormFrameTypeRegulated, eSwitchStormControlAction, eSwitchStormResumptionPolicy. If auto-interval(2) is specified, normal operation is automatically resumed on the offending port after a time interval specified by the MIB object eSwitchStormAutoInterval. If rate-limit(3) is specified, the storm control action continues for the next p polling intervals, where p is the number of polling intervals that the control has to remain in effect in order to ensure that the long term average of the regulated traffic is less than the user specified rate limit. For example, if the user-specified rate limit is 500 packets/polling interval, and 5000 multicast packets were received during the last polling interval, the storm control action continues to be in effect for the next 9 polling intervals. This ensures that no more than 5000 multicast packets are forwarded out of the offending port in 10 polling intervals. Thus the long term multicast traffic average is maintained at 500 packets/polling interval. The responsive-rate-limit(4) resumption policy is identical to the rate-limit(3) policy, except for the following difference. Once storm control action has been initiated, if the switch determines that the storm has subsided (for example, less than 500 packets were received during the last polling interval), normal operation is immediately resumed, instead of waiting for 'p' polling intervals to complete.