Configuration Options; Configuring Standard Autonegotiation; Configuring A Fixed Port State; Configuring Advanced Autonegotiation Or Port Monitoring - 3Com 4007 Release Note

As with Port Monitoring, Advanced Autonegotiation also monitors port
error levels and provides notification, but goes further by changing a
port's mode into full duplex mode. However, if errors continue to exceed
the system threshold, Advanced Autonegotiation partitions the port.
Configuration To provide flexibility, the Advanced Autonegotiation and Port Monitoring
Options features are enabled and disabled separately from standard
autonegotiation. The benefits of this arrangement include:
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Configuring Standard Autonegotiation

To enable or disable standard autonegotiation, at the CLI prompt, enter:
ethernet autoNegotiation
Then select a port or range of ports and enter either enable or
disable.

Configuring a Fixed Port State

To set a fixed port state (standard autonegotiation is disabled), at the CLI
prompt, enter:
ethernet portMode
Then select a port or range of ports and enter the appropriate speed and
duplex mode.

Configuring Advanced Autonegotiation or Port Monitoring

To enable or disable either Advanced Autonegotiation or Port Monitoring,
at the CLI prompt, enter:
ethernet monitoring mode
Then select a port or range of ports, and enter one of these options:
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The Advanced Autonegotiation and Port Monitoring features can also
work for 100FX ports, which do not have an autonegotiation process.
Port Monitoring can be enabled for ports that have been set to
operate a fixed speed and duplex mode (autonegotiation is disabled).
— neither Port Monitoring nor Advanced Autonegotiation
disabled
is enabled.
— Port Monitoring is enabled
enabled
— Advanced Autonegotiation is enabled (includes the Port
advanced
Monitoring function)
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