The MultiSwitch 700 Device View

Enabling and Disabling Ports

When you disable bridging at a port interface, 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 or with other networks connected to the bridge. When you enable bridging for the interface, the port moves from the Disabled state through the Listening and Learning states to the Forwarding state; bridge port state color codes will change accordingly.

NOTE

You cannot disable a backplane interface from the Device Logical View — since the backplane interfaces do not appear in the port stack. You must use the Device BackPlane Config View to disable the interfaces to the DLM6C-AA backplane.

To enable or disable bridging for an individual interface:

1.Click on the appropriate port display box to display the port menu.

2.Select Enable to enable bridging at the interface, or Disable to disable bridging. Bridging will now be enabled or disabled across the selected port, as desired.

To enable or disable bridging for all interfaces installed on the monitored MultiSwitch 700 module:

1.Click on the module index of interest to display the Module menu.

2.Select Enable Bridge to enable bridging at all installed interfaces, or Disable Bridge to disable bridging across all interfaces. Bridging will now be enabled or disabled across the installed interfaces, as desired.

NOTE

For more information about bridging functions and how to determine the current state of each bridge port, see the Bridging chapter in the Tools Guide.

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700 specifications

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