Operation Manual - Port
Quidway S3000-EI Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 Ethernet Port Configuration
Huawei Technologies Proprietary
1-3
Perform the following configuration in Ethernet port view.
Table 1-2
Enable/Disable an Ethernet port
Operation
Command
Disable an Ethernet port
shutdown
Enable an Ethernet port
undo shutdown
By default, the port is enabled.
1.3 Set Description Character String for Ethernet Port
To distinguish the Ethernet ports, you can use the following command to make some
necessary descriptions.
Perform the following configuration in Ethernet port view.
Table 1-3
Set description character string for Ethernet port
Operation
Command
Set description character string for Ethernet port.
description
text
Delete the description character string of Ethernet.
undo
description
By default, the port description is a null character string.
1.3.1 Set Duplex Attribute of the Ethernet Port
To configure a port to send and receive data packets at the same time, set it to
full-duplex. To configure a port to either send or receive data packets at a time, set it to
half-duplex. If the port has been set to auto-negotiation mode, the local and peer ports
will automatically negotiate about the duplex mode.
Perform the following configuration in Ethernet port view.
Table 1-4
Set duplex attribute for Ethernet port
Operation
Command
Set duplex attribute for Ethernet port.
duplex
{
auto
|
full
|
half
}
Restore the default duplex attribute of Ethernet port.
undo duplex
Note that, 100M electrical Ethernet port can operate in full-duplex, half-duplex or
auto-negotiation mode, which can be set as per the requirements.
The optical 100M/Gigabit Ethernet ports support full duplex and can be set to operate in
full
(full duplex) or
auto
(auto-negotiation) mode.
