Enabling/Disabling An Ethernet Port; Setting Ethernet Port Description; Setting The Duplex Attribute Of The Ethernet Port - 3Com 8800 Configuration Manual

3Com Switch 8800 Configuration Guide

6.2.2 Enabling/Disabling an Ethernet Port

After configuring the related parameters and protocol of the port, you can use undo
shutdown command to enable the port. If you do not want a port to forward data any
more, use shutdown command to disable it.
Perform the following configuration in Ethernet port view.
Table 6-2 Enable/disable an Ethernet port
Disable an Ethernet port
Enable an Ethernet port
By default, the port is enabled.

6.2.3 Setting Ethernet Port Description

To distinguish the Ethernet ports, you can use the following command to make some
necessary descriptions.
Perform the following configuration in Ethernet port group view.
Table 6-3 Set Ethernet port description
Set an Ethernet port description
Delete the Ethernet port description
By default, an Ethernet port has no description.

6.2.4 Setting the Duplex Attribute of the Ethernet Port

To configure a port to send and receive data packets at the same time, set it to
full-duplex. To configure a port to either send or receive data packets at a time, set it to
half-duplex. If the port has been set to auto-negotiation mode, the local and peer ports
will automatically negotiate about the duplex mode.
Perform the following configuration in Ethernet port view.
Table 6-4 Set the duplex attribute for the Ethernet port
Set duplex attribute for Ethernet port
Restore the default duplex attribute of Ethernet port
Operation
Operation
Operation
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Chapter 6 Ethernet Port Configuration
Command
shutdown
undo shutdown
Command
description text
undo description
Command
duplex { auto | full | half }
undo duplex