Setting Flow Control

Setting Flow Control

Purpose

To review, enable or disable port flow control. Flow control is used to manage the transmission between two devices as specified by IEEE 802.3x to prevent receiving ports from being overwhelmed by frames from transmitting devices.

Commands

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show flowcontrol

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set flowcontrol

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show flowcontrol

Use this command to display the flow control state.

Syntax

show flowcontrol

Parameters

None.

Defaults

None.

Mode

Switch command, read‐only.

Example

This example shows how to display the port flow control state:

C3(su)->show flowcontrol

Flow control status: enabled

set flowcontrol

Use this command to enable or disable flow control.

Syntax

set flowcontrol {enable disable}

Parameters

enable disable Enables or disables flow control settings.

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