Allen-Bradley Stratix 6000 - Chapter 4 Switch Management; What This Chapter Contains; Port Configuration

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Chapter 4
Switch Management
What This Chapter Contains
This chapter provides information about switch management and includes the
following:
• Port configuration
• Mirror configuration
• MAC ID management
• VLAN setup
• QoS setup
Port Configuration
This device auto-negotiates most of its settings to ease the configuration process.
These settings can be manually set by using this menu with these options as
follows.
• Transmit and Receive - Default is Both. Choices are None, TX, RX, Both.
Controls communication on the selected port.
• Negotiation - Default is Auto. Choices are None and Auto. Turn off auto-
negotiation here if the port is to be manually configured.
• Rate - Auto-negotiates 10 or 100 mbit/s based on the connected device,
must be manually selected if the negotiation parameter is changed to
None.
• Duplex mode - Auto-negotiates half or full based on the connected device.
Must be manually selected if the negotiation parameter is changed to
None.
• Flow Control - Default is On. Prevents port buffers from over filling.