Optimizing Traffic Flow with Port Controls, Port Trunking, and Filters

Overview

Overview

This chapter includes:

Configuring ports to non-default settings (page 9-2)

These settings include enable/disable, mode (speed and duplex), flow control, port-trunk group, and port-trunk type. You can also set a broadcast limit that applies to all ports on the switch.

Port aggregation: Creating and modifying a port trunk group (page 9-10)

You can configure static and dynamic trunks. Includes non-protocol trunks, LACP (802.3ad) trunks, and FEC trunks.

Traffic/Security Filters: Configuring filters based on source-port, proto­ col, and multicast address.

Viewing Port Status and Configuring PortParametersPort Status and Configuration Features

Feature

Default

Menu

CLI

Web

viewing port status

n/a

page 9-5

page 9-6

page 9-9

configuring ports

See Table 9-1on

page 9-5

page 9-8

page 9-9

 

pages 9-3and

 

 

 

 

9-4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note On Connecting If the switch either fails to show a link between an installed transceiver and

Transceivers to another device, or demonstrates errors or other unexpected behavior on the Fixed-Configurationlink, check the port configuration on both devices for a speed and/or duplex

Devices(mode) mismatch. To check the mode setting for a port on a Series 5300XL Switches, use either the Port Status screen in the menu interface (page 9-5)or show interfaces brief in the CLI (page 9-6).

9-2