Port Membership; Viewing The Unassigned Ports; Table 14 Port Membership Types And Stgs - Nortel Optivity Switch Using Manual

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Port membership

In the navigation pane, the top four icons represent the following types of port
memberships:
• Unassigned
• Tagging
• Isolated Routing Port (IRP)
• Bridge Routing (brouter ports)
Table 14

Table 14 Port membership types and STGs

Icon

Viewing the unassigned ports

To view the table associated with the unassigned ports:
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describes the port membership types.
Port type
Unassigned
Tagging
Isolated Routing
Port (IRP)
Bridge Routing
(brouter ports)
In the navigation pane, select Unassigned.
Description
Port that do not belong to any STG. If no devices in the
network contain unassigned ports, a table does not open
in the contents pane.
Port that has tagging enabled and can belong to multiple
STGs. If a tagged frame is received on a tagged port, with
a VLAN ID specified in the tag, the switch directs it to that
VLAN, if it is present.
Port that can only route IP packets and does not belong to
any STG or VLAN.
Note: IRPs are applicable only to the Passport 1000
Series switch.
Port that can route IP packets as well as bridge all
nonroutable traffic. The routing interface is not subjected
to the Spanning Tree Protocol.
Note: Bridge routing ports, or brouter ports, are available
only on the Passport 1000 Series switch and the Passport
8600 switch.