Port Enable And Disable (Port State); Important Considerations; Port Labels; Implementing Port Labels - 3Com 4007 Implementation Manual

Port Enable and
Disable (Port State)
Important
Considerations

Port Labels

Implementing
Port Labels
You can Ethernet ports (place them on-line) or
enable
(place them off-line).
Because it stops all network traffic through the port, disabling a port
may adversely affect a live network.
When a port is enabled, the port transmits frames normally. When a
port is disabled, the port neither sends nor receives frames.
The portState is
off-line
ports with an active link.
Port labels serve as useful reference points and as an accurate way to
identify ports for management applications.
Label Ethernet ports so that you can easily identify the devices that are
attached to them (such as LANs, workstations, or servers). For
example, you can assign
A new port label appears in system displays the next time that you
display information for that port.
Port labels can include up to 32 ASCII characters, including the null
terminator.

Port Enable and Disable (Port State)

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them
disable
for enabled
on-line
as a label.