Auto-negotiation – The configured state of auto-negotiation. Either enabled or disabled.

Protect Status – The configured state of broadcast storm control on the interface. To set the threshold value, see “Broadcast Storm Control (Global Setting)” on page 3-67.

MAC Address19 – The physical layer address of the port.

Port Capabilities20 – The capabilities that are advertised for a port during auto- negotiation. The following capabilities are supported:

10half – 10 Mbit/sec half-duplex operation

10full – 10 Mbit/sec full-duplex operation

100half – 100 Mbit/sec half-duplex operation

100full – 100 Mbit/sec full-duplex operation

1000full – 1000 Mbit/sec full-duplex operation

Sym – The transmitting and receiving of pause frames for flow control

FC – Flow control

LACP Status21 – The configured state of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on the port.

Web Interface: Displaying Connection Status for the Ports

To display port status information and configure connections for one or more interfaces:

1.Open Up Links / Down Links / Management Port Status.

2.Select the check box next to the interface to configure.

3.Click Configure.

See “Configuring Interface Connections” on page 3-102.

19.CLI only. To display this parameter through the Web interface, see “Setting the IP Address” on page 3-12.

20.CLI only. To display this parameter through the Web interface, see “Configuring Interface Connections” on page 3-102.

21.CLI only.

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