Enterasys Networks FN 100 manual FN100 Port Status Displays, Selecting a Port Status View

The FN100 Chassis View

•Enable/Disable, which administratively turns the selected bridging port on or off; see Viewing I/F Summary Information on page 2-13for more information.

The FN100 Port Status Displays

When you open the Chassis View window, each port on the FN100 will display its Admin status (defined below); to change this status display, select one of the options on the Port Status menu, as described in the following sections.

Selecting a Port Status View

To change the status of your ports:

1.Click on Port Status on the menu bar at the top of the Chassis View window; a menu will appear.

2.Drag down (and to the right, if necessary) to select the status information you want to display. The port text boxes will display the appropriate status information.

Port status view options are:

Status

You can view four status categories for your ports:

•Bridge — FWD (forwarding), DIS (disabled), LIS (listening), LRN (learning), BLK (blocking), BRK (broken), or UNK (unknown).

•Bridge Mapping — bridge interface index numbers

•Admin — ON or OFF

•Operator — ON or OFF

If you have selected the Bridge status mode, a port is considered:

•FWD (forwarding) when the interface is on-line and forwarding packets from one network segment to another.

•DIS (disabled) when bridging at the interface has been disabled by management, and no traffic can be received or forwarded on this interface.

•LIS (listening) when the interface is not adding information to the filtering database. It is monitoring Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) traffic while preparing to move to the forwarding state.

•LRN (learning) when the Forwarding database is being created, or the Spanning Tree Algorithm is being executed because of a network topology change.

•BLK (blocking) when the interface is on-line, but filtering traffic from going across the FN100 from one network segment to another.

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