Flow Control; Speed & Duplex - Broadcom 440X User Manual

From the Advanced tab, you can view and change the settings of the available properties of the
selected device. The potentially available properties and their respective settings are described below.
To view the setting of a property, click the name of the property in the Property list. The property
setting is displayed in the Value box. To change the setting, click an item in the Value list or type a
new value, as appropriate (selection options are different for different properties).
802.1p QOS
The 802.1p QOS property enables quality of service, which is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering (IEEE) specification that treats different types of network traffic differently to ensure
required levels or reliability and latency according to the type of traffic. This property is disabled by
default. Unless the network infrastructure supports QoS, do not enable QoS. Otherwise, problems may
occur.

Flow Control

The Flow Control property enables or disables the receipt or transmission of PAUSE frames. PAUSE
frames enable the network controller and a switch to control the transmit rate. The side that is
receiving the PAUSE frame momentarily stops transmitting.
Enable (default). PAUSE frame receipt and transmission is enabled.
Disable. PAUSE frame receipt and transmission are disabled.
Speed & Duplex