User Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, v6.1 8-1
8Configuring Ports
Overview
The following information and procedures are provided in this chapter and
are common to both layer 2 and layer 3 module configuration:
■Two Categories of Port Settings
■Configuring Physical Port Settings
■Configuring Switch Ports Settings
■Configuring Port Redundancy
■GBIC Identification
■Network Error Detection and Recovery
■Internal Error Detection and Recovery
For more information about the CLI commands that are mentioned in this
chapter, see Command Reference Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882
Multiservice Switches, Software Version 6.1.

Two Categories of Port Settings

The system has two categories of port settings:
■Physical port settings — Allows you to set up rules that guide the
system’s physical layer interaction (for exa mple, enable/disable,
speed, auto-negotiation).
■Switch port settings — Allows you to specify how the port
participates in switching (for example, VLAN mode, trunking).
The following sections explain some of the Avaya P580 and P882
Multiservice switch features and how to configure the ports:
■Physical Port Features
■Switch Port Features
■Relationship Between Different Swit ch Port Parameters
■Assigning VLANs to a Port and Associated Issues