Cabletron Systems 7C04-R, 7C03 manual Bridge Port Display, Port #

Using the 7C0x SmartSwitch Bridge View

The Bridge Port Display

Each Bridge Port box in the Bridge Traffic View displays information about its corresponding bridge port.

The Bridge Port boxes are color-coded, reflecting their current status. Bridge Port boxes for disabled bridge ports are colored blue. Enabled bridge ports are colored green, yellow, or red, depending on the range in which the traffic volume through that port falls. See Configuring Forwarding Thresholds, page 6-30, for complete instructions on assigning traffic ranges and their corresponding Bridge Port box colors.

Bridge Port box fields are as follows:

Port #

The index number assigned to the bridge port.

Type

The bridge port’s interface type (e.g. ethernet-csmacd, fddi, ppp, token ring, etc.).

MAC

The MAC address of the interface associated with the port.

The remaining information displayed in the Bridge Port boxes depends on selections made using the buttons located at the bottom of the Bridge Traffic View. See the next section, Choosing Bridge Traffic Information: Bridge Traffic View Buttons, for instructions on using these buttons.

Choosing Bridge Traffic Information: Bridge Traffic View Buttons

The four buttons at the bottom of the Bridge Traffic View control the type of information that appears in some of the Bridge Port box fields. (The Port number, Type, and MAC address fields are not affected by any of these buttons.)

The Frames/Admin, Source Routing/Transparent, and Delta/Percentage buttons each let you choose one of the two display modes for the Bridge Port boxes. The display mode visible on a button is the one not currently selected. Clicking on a button when the button displays the desired mode type chooses that mode type for the Bridge Port boxes. For example, the Frames/Admin button will display Frames when the Admin display mode is in effect and Admin when the Frames display mode is in effect.

The Frames/Admin button allows you to change the information displayed in the Bridge Port boxes between traffic statistics (when Frames is selected) and port state/status (when Admin is selected).

6-6 Accessing the Bridge Traffic View Window