Console Management

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Type a to toggle the port’s auto-negotiation

status to enabled or disabled, as desired.

The port’s auto-negotiation ability is changed.

The auto-negotiation status is displayed at the top of the screen.

Configuring RMON Parameters

This menu allows you to view and configure RMON (remote monitoring) information.

ΔNote: RMON is a standard for monitoring and reporting network activity using remote monitors. It allows a management system to remotely moni- tor the IntraSwitch 5212 for diagnostic purposes.

See Appendix B,“Supported MIBs” for a detailed description of each group of RMON that is sup- ported by the IntraSwitch 5212.

Important! See Chapter 7, “Advanced Man- agement,” for information on using RMON.

Configuring MAC Forwarding Table

Parameters

This menu allows you to view and search for addresses in the

IntraSwitch 5212’s MAC Forwarding Table.

The IntraSwitch 5212 checks the source and destination addresses as packets pass through it and records the information in the table.The IntraSwitch 5212 uses the information in this table to decide whether a frame should be forwarded or filtered.

ΔNote: The IntraSwitch 5212’s MAC address table holds a maximum of 1024 entries.

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