For anybody not familiar with the broadcast storm concept, here's a good article that gives useful into:
www.networkuptime.com/columns/broadcast/
One thing they point out, is that as Ethernet switching has become more commonplace, broadcast storms have become more of a problem, since the network structure is becoming "flatter" (not separated using routers), which may answer the point I made in my earlier message, about why that affected the *entire* campus network.
TTYL,
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