Quiescing and Unquiescing Ports

◆From port: 0–7for physical ports, 8–63for logical ports. Valid numbers for physical ports depend on the model of SmartSwitch 1800—see port loca- tions on page 6-1.

◆To port: 0–7, 8–63 .

A disabled port's state is reported asLink_Disabled on status displays, and the port can neither send nor receive packets.

Quiesce operations allow you to cause a single port or a sequential range of same-type ports (e.g., all async PAD ports from port 0 to port 3) to become disabled when there are no active connections on the port(s). Once disabled, the port(s) will remain dis- abled until enabled using the Enable operation, after which time a Quiesce must be performed again if that feature is desired.

Unquiesce operations allow returning of one or more quiesced ports to a normal con- dition (without waiting for them to become disabled).

Select an operation from the menu (Figure 19-1), items E–H. When prompted:

●If quiescing or unquiescing a single port, enter:

◆RLP Port: 0–7for physical ports, 8–63for logical ports. Valid numbers for physical ports depend on the model of SmartSwitch 1800—see port loca- tions on page 6-1.

●If quiescing or unquiescing a range of ports, enter:

◆Port Type: 1 (X.25), 2 (frame relay), 3 (async), 4 (SNA), 5 (BSCI), 6 (BSCB), or 7 (Voice).

◆From port: 0–7for physical ports, 8–63for logical ports. Valid numbers for physical ports depend on the model of SmartSwitch 1800—see port loca- tions on page 6-1.

◆To port: 0–7, 8–63 .

While an X.25 dialout port is quiesced, it cannot receive alarms or file transfers, or be used by a remote Cabletron frame relay access device to take control of the node. Also, quiescing a range of ports has no affect on any port types within that range other than the type specified.

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