Gigabit Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
Using the Console Interface
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3.
In the
State
field, change the port state to
Enabled
or
Disabled
.
4.
In the
Flow Ctrl
field, toggle
Off
or
On
.
5.
In the
Priority
field, select
Normal
,
High
or
Low
.
6.
In the
Broadcast Storm Rising Action
and
Broadcast
Storm Falling Action
fields, set the desired setting.
7.
Press CTRL+S to let the changes take effect.
The
Speed/Duplex
field reflects the current condition of the
port,
1000M/Full
. It is a read-only field and cannot be
changed.
The fields you can set are:
♦
Port (1-4)
Select the desired port in this field.
♦
State
When you disable
the state, the port will be
partitioned from the rest of the network. In this partitioned
state, it will only be able to accept management packets. All
other packets will be dropped.
♦
Flow Ctrl
Enables
or disables
IEEE 802.3x flow control on
the port. Flow control allows the port to send a Pause packet
to a transmitting IEEE 802.3x-compliant device, so that its
buffers don’t overflow and data is not lost.
♦
Priority
Sets the priority for traffic arriving at this port
to high, normal or low. Higher priority packets are processed
first in the switch’s packet queue.
♦
Broadcast Storm Rising Action
This setting will be
activated when the switch detects that 80% of packets on the
segment connected to the port are broadcast packets and the
port surpasses 30% utilization. When these criteria are met,
the port can be configured to
Do Nothing
,
Blocking
or