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Switch Settings
Port Settings
Overview
This feature allows you to view the physical state, operating mode, rate, and traffic control
information about each port and edit port settings.
Interface rate
Generally, a device automatically negotiates the rate of an Ethernet interface with the peer device.
The negotiated rate can be any rate within the rate capability range. To allow the interface to use
only specific rates, you can configure auto negotiation rate settings.
Operating mode
You can configure an Ethernet interface to operate in one of the following duplex modes:
•
Full duplex mode
—The interface can send and receive packets simultaneously.
•
Half duplex mode
—The interface can only send or receive packets at a given time.
•
Auto negotiation mode
—The interface negotiates a duplex mode with its peer.
Flow control
With flow control enabled, when traffic congestion occurs at the receiving end, the receiving end
sends a flow control (Pause) frame to ask the sending end to suspend sending packets.
Configuring port settings
1.
From the navigation pane, select
Switch Settings
>
Port Settings
.
2.
From the
Port Settings
list, select the ports to configure.
3.
Bring up or shut down the ports. By default, a port is up.
4.
Select a rate and duplex mode. By default, the auto mode is used.
5.
Enable or disable flow control. By default, flow control is disabled.
6.
Click
Submit
.