Table 12 Port Setup - ZyXEL Communications GS-4024 User Manual

Table 12 Port Setup

LABEL
Port
Active
Name
Type
Speed/Duplex
Flow Control
802.1P Priority This priority value is added to incoming frames without a (802.1p) priority queue tag.
BPDU Control
Apply
Cancel
Chapter 7 Basic Setting
DESCRIPTION
This is the port index number.
Select this check box to enable a port. The factory default for all ports is enabled. A
port must be enabled for data transmission to occur.
Enter a descriptive name (up to nine printable characters) that identifies this port.
This field displays 10/100/1000M for the Ethernet/ Fast Ethernet ports or 1000M for
the Gigabit/ mini-GBIC ports
Select the speed and the duplex mode of the connection on this port. Choices are
Auto, 10M/Half Duplex, 10M/Full Duplex, 100M/Half Duplex, 100M/Full Duplex
and 1000M/Full Duplex.
Selecting Auto (auto-negotiation) allows one port to negotiate with a peer port
automatically to obtain the connection speed and duplex mode that both ends support.
When auto-negotiation is turned on, a port on the switch negotiates with the peer
automatically to determine the connection speed and duplex mode. If the peer port
does not support auto-negotiation or turns off this feature, the switch determines the
connection speed by detecting the signal on the cable and using half duplex mode.
When the switch's auto-negotiation is turned off, a port uses the pre-configured speed
and duplex mode when making a connection, thus requiring you to make sure that the
settings of the peer port are the same in order to connect.
A concentration of traffic on a port decreases port bandwidth and overflows buffer
memory causing packet discards and frame losses. Flow Control is used to regulate
transmission of signals to match the bandwidth of the receiving port.
The switch uses IEEE802.3x flow control in full duplex mode and back pressure flow
control in half duplex mode.
IEEE802.3x flow control is used in full duplex mode to send a pause signal to the
sending port, causing it to temporarily stop sending signals when the receiving port
memory buffers fill.
Back Pressure flow control is typically used in half duplex mode to send a "collision"
signal to the sending port (mimicking a state of packet collision) causing the sending
port to temporarily stop sending signals and resend later. Select Flow Control to
enable it.
See Priority Queue Assignment in
Configure the way to treat BPDUs received on this port. You must activate bridging
control protocol transparency in the Switch Setup screen first.
Select Peer to process any BPDU (Bridge Protocol Data Units) received on this port.
Select Tunnel to forward BPDUs received on this port.
Select Discard to drop any BPDU received on this port.
Select Network to process a BPDU with no VLAN tag and forward a tagged BPDU.
Click Apply to save the settings.
Click Cancel to reset the fields to your previous configuration.
GS-4024 User's Guide
Table 10 on page 75 for more information.
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