Motorola P880 manual Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Gigabit Ports

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Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Gigabit Ports

To configure ports on a gigabit module:

1.In the System Configuration section of the Web Agent window, select Modules & Ports. The Module Information dialog box opens.

2.In the Ports column, click the number (2 or 4 for gigabit modules) for the module you want to configure. The Physical Port Configuration dialog box opens.

3.Click the Enable check box to enable a port, or if the check box is enabled, click the Enable check box if you want to disable the port.

4.Click APPLY to save your settings, or CANCEL to restore previous settings.

5.In the Name field, click the port name to set additional parameters. The Detailed Physical Port Configuration dialog box opens.

Refer to Table 9 for more information on the Gigabit port parameters.

6.In the Name field, enter a port name.

7.If this is an end-station port, from the Category pull-down menu, select User Port. For trunk ports, select Service Port.

8.From the Flow Control Mode pull-down menu, select Enable to use flow control to prevent buffer overflows. Disable this feature only when flow control is causing congestion in other areas of the network.

9.From the Pace Priority Mode pull-down menu, select Enable to recognize and use 3Com’s PACE priority mechanism.

10.From the Remote Fault Detect pull-down menu, select Enable to detect remote link errors.

Notes:

—The remote fault detection functionality should be enabled (on both ends of a Cajun to Cajun link) in two cases. The first case is when two Cajun gigabit ports are connected that do not support auto-negotiation. The second case is when a Cajun gigabit port that does not support auto-negotiation is connected to a Cajun gigabit

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