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Viewing Port Status
Information
You can view information about the status of Ethernet ports on the
Switch using the
summary
command on the Ethernet menu.
To view the port status information:
1 At the Top-level menu, enter:
ethernet summary
The following prompt is displayed:
Select Ethernet port (1-24|all):
For the Model F12/F24, ports 1 to 24 are the 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX
ports. Any additional ports provided through an Expansion Module are
numbered 25 and onwards.
2 Enter the number of a port, or enter
all
for all the ports.
The port status information for the port(s) is displayed.
An example of the port status information is shown below:
The statistics that are displayed are gathered in the time interval since
the last reset, initialization or power-off/on cycle.
Viewing and
Changing IP-related
Information
You can view and change IP-related information for the current Switch
unit in the stack using the commands on the IP menu. These
commands allow you to:
■
Specify the IP and SLIP information for the Switch
■
Display the IP information for the Switch
■
Specify whether the Switch uses BOOTP
■
PING other devices on your network
To view and change IP-related information for another Switch unit in
the stack, you need to select that unit using the
unit
command. For
more information, see “Moving the Focus of the Command Line
Interface” on page 5-12.
Port State Rx Packets Rx Octets Errors
1 Enabled 163542 65439864 4
2 Disabled 0 0 0
3 Enabled 639263 83636219 4
...
24
Enabled 645232 23142514 0
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