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Table 18

Link speeds on the management port

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auto-negotiate

Auto-negotiate

Fixed Speed

Link speed

ET0010A

ET0100A, ET1000A

All ETEPs

1000

Mbps Full-duplex

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1000

Mbps Half-duplex

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To configure the management port:

1At the command prompt, type configure to enter configuration mode.

2At the config> prompt, type management-interface.

3Assigning an IPv4 address to the management port is mandatory. To set the management port IPv4 address, mask, and gateway, type

ip <ip address> <subnet mask> [gateway]

ip address

Management port IP address, entered in dotted decimal notation.

subnet mask

IP subnet mask, entered in dotted decimal notation.

gateway

Specifies how to route traffic between the ETEP management port and the

 

management station. When the management port is on a different subnet than

 

the management station, specify the IP address of the router’s local port on

 

the same subnet as the ETEP management port (see Figure 34). If the

 

devices are on the same subnet, you do not need to enter a default gateway.

After entering the new IP address, it takes 10-20 seconds for the ETEP to set the address on the management port. During that time you cannot enter any CLI commands. When the operation is complete, the man-if>prompt is displayed.

4Optional. If the ETEP is operating in an IPv6 network you can also assign an IPv6 address to the management port. To do so, type

ip6 {<ip address>/<prefix-length>} [gateway]

ip address

IPv6 address of the ETEP management port. This is a 128-bit address

 

consisting of eight hexadecimal groups that are separated by colons. Each

 

group is a 4-digit hexadecimal number. The hexadecimal letters in IPv6

 

addresses are not case sensitive.

prefix-length

A decimal value that indicates the number of contiguous, higher-order bits of

 

the address that make up the network portion of the address. The decimal

 

value is preceded by a forward slash (/).

gateway

IPv6 address of the router port that is on the same local network as the ETEP

 

management port.

5Auto-negotiation is enabled by default. If you want to disable auto-negotiation and manually set the link speed and flow control, configure the autoneg command. Attributes are described in Table 19.

autoneg {enable} {disable [<speed>] [<flow-control>]}

6Type exit to return to the config prompt, or type top to return to the command prompt.

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EncrypTight Enforcement Point (ETEP) Installation Guide specifications

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