Cabletron Systems 9H42X-XX Enabling and Disabling Bridging

Bridging

5-6 Enabling and Disabling Bridging

Enabling and Disabling Bridging

When you disable a bridge port, you disconnect that port’s network from the

bridge entirely. The port does not forward any packets, nor does it participate in

Spanning Tree operations. Nodes connected to the network can still communicate

with each other, but they can’t communicate with the bridge and other networks

connected to the bridge. When you enable a port, the port moves from the

Disabled state through the Listening and Learning states to the Forwarding or

Blocking state (as determined by Spanning Tree).

There are two ways to disable an individual port interface:

from the Bridge Status window:

1. Click on the desired Port button ( ) to display the port menu.

2. Drag down to Enable to restart bridging on the selected interface, or Disable

to halt bridging across the selected interface.

from the Module View window:

1. Click on the appropriate port display to access the Port menu.

2. Drag down to Enable to restart bridging on the selected interface, or Disable

to halt bridging across the selected interface.

Similarly, there are two ways to disable bridging across all interfaces on the

9H42x-xx module:

from the Bridge Status window:

1. Click on to display the Bridge Status menu.

2. Drag down to Enable Bridge to enable bridging across all installed interfaces,

or to Disable Bridge to disable bridging across all installed interfaces.

NOTE

For Fast Ethernet interfaces, you conﬁgure the Duplex Mode (as well as speed and

parameters related to auto-negotiation) via the Port Conﬁguration window available from

the individual bridge port menus.