Intel i217-LM NIC Causes Broadcast storm and High CPU

Wanted to post this here to help others that may be experiencing issues with broadcasts.   
If you have PC's with the Intel i217-LM NIC if you don't have the latest driver from Intel the NIC will cause an IPV6 broadcast storm when the computer goes into sleep/hibernate.  You have to have at least two PC's on your network in sleep/hibernate mode.  It causes the same affect as a network loop.  In my network it would cause the MDF CPU to go to 100% and basically shut the network down.  
We have Lenovo M93 desktops that have this NIC and I know that there are other PC's that have his same NIC and experience the same problem.
When the broadcast storm is happening you can issue the command 
show interfaces | include is up|line|broadcast on your MDF switch to find which interfaces have high broadcasts.  You may have to trace it through your uplinks to your IDF's.  You can then shut those interfaces to stop the broadcast storm.
Your long term solution will be to get the latest NIC driver from Intel and update your PC's.

It's connected IPV4 but because of the faulty NIC driver it starts broadcasting IPV6 when in sleep/hibernate mode.
https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12291431/ipv6-broadcast-storm-caused-hp-eliteone-800-intel-i217-lm-nic-how-find-hosts
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/A-M-and-Edge-Series-ThinkCentre/M83-and-M93p-ipv6-storms-intel-i217-LM-NIC/td-p/1600686

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