Enabling And Disabling Ports In The Console - HP 10Base-T Hub 24M Manual

Figure 6-29. The Port Enable/Disable Screen

Enabling and Disabling Ports in the Console

To enable and disable ports using the Port Enable/Disable Screen in the Hub
Console Interface, perform the following tasks:
From the Main Menu, type 3 and press [Enter]. The Hub Console
1.
Interface displays the Hub Configuration Menu.
From the Hub Configuration Menu, type 2 and press [Enter]. The
2.
Hub Console Interface displays the Port Enable/Disable Screen. Note two
aspects of the screen:
• it displays a representation of ports on the hub shown in the series of
boxes containing port numbers. If you have a 24-port hub, you will
see 25 boxes (24 boxes for RJ-45 ports 1-24 and one box for the XCVR
port).
• each box contains one of two settings, a D, indicating the port is
disabled or an E, indicating the port is enabled.
3. To change a port setting, type Y at the Change port setting? prompt
and press [Enter]. The screen displays the following prompt:
Enter range of ports to disable or enable, Examples:
1-3,6, XCVR
(range 1-#, XCVR, ALL)
Configuration Reference
By disabling a port, it
will not be able to
respond to packets
transmitted to it.
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