Setting Flow Control; Purpose; Commands; Show Port Flowcontrol - Enterasys Matrix DFE-Gold Series Configuration Manual

show port flowcontrol

Setting Flow Control

Purpose

To review, enable or disable port flow control. Flow control is used to manage the transmission
between two devices as specified by IEEE 802.3x to prevent receiving ports from being
overwhelmed by frames from transmitting devices.

Commands

For information about...
show port flowcontrol
set port flowcontrol
show port flowcontrol
Use this command to display the flow control state for one or more ports.
Syntax
show port flowcontrol [port-string]
Parameters
port‐string
Defaults
If port‐string is not specified, flow control information for all ports will be displayed.
Mode
Read‐Only.
Example
This example shows how to display the port flow control state for fe.1.1‐5:
Matrix(rw)->show port flowcontrol fe.1.1-5
Port
------------ -------- -------- -------- -------- -------------- --------------
fe.1.1
fe.1.2
fe.1.3
fe.1.4
fe.1.5
(Optional) Displays flow control state for specific port(s). For a detailed
description of possible port‐string values, refer to "Port String Syntax
Used in the CLI" on page 4‐2.
TX Admin TX Oper RX Admin
enabled disabled enabled disabled
enabled disabled enabled disabled
enabled enabled enabled
enabled disabled enabled disabled
enabled disabled enabled disabled
RX Oper TX Pause Count RX Pause Count
enabled
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