Viewing port status and configuring port parameters...............................................................................55
Connecting transceivers to fixed-configuration devices................................................................ 55
Viewing port configuration (Menu).................................................................................................55
Configuring ports (Menu)....................................................................................................58
Viewing port status and configuration (CLI).................................................................................. 59
Dynamically updating the show interfaces command (CLI/Menu)..................................... 59
Customizing the show interfaces command (CLI).........................................................................60
Error messages associated with the show interfaces command........................................61
Viewing port utilization statistics (CLI)...........................................................................................62
Operating notes for viewing port utilization statistics..........................................................63
Viewing transceiver status (CLI)....................................................................................................63
Operating Notes................................................................................................................. 63
Enabling or disabling ports and configuring port mode (CLI)........................................................ 64
Enabling or disabling flow control (CLI).........................................................................................65
Configuring a broadcast limit.........................................................................................................67
Broadcast-limit....................................................................................................................67
Port shutdown with broadcast storm............................................................................................. 67
Viewing broadcast storm.................................................................................................... 68
SNMP MIB..........................................................................................................................69
Configuring auto-MDIX..................................................................................................................71
Manual override..................................................................................................................72
Configuring auto-MDIX (CLI)..............................................................................................72
Using friendly (optional) port names........................................................................................................ 74
Configuring and operating rules for friendly port names............................................................... 74
Configuring friendly port names (CLI)........................................................................................... 74
Configuring a single port name (CLI)................................................................................. 75
Configuring the same name for multiple ports (CLI)...........................................................75
Displaying friendly port names with other port data (CLI)............................................................. 75
Listing all ports or selected ports with their friendly port names (CLI)................................76
Including friendly port names in per-port statistics listings (CLI)........................................ 77
Searching the configuration for ports with friendly port names (CLI)................................. 77
Uni-directional link detection (UDLD).......................................................................................................78
Configuring UDLD......................................................................................................................... 79
Configuring uni-directional link detection (UDLD) (CLI)..................................................... 79
Enabling UDLD (CLI)..........................................................................................................80
Changing the keepalive interval (CLI)................................................................................ 80
Changing the keepalive retries (CLI)..................................................................................80
Configuring UDLD for tagged ports.................................................................................... 80
Viewing UDLD information (CLI)................................................................................................... 81
Viewing summary information on all UDLD-enabled ports (CLI)........................................81
Viewing detailed UDLD information for specific ports (CLI)................................................82
Clearing UDLD statistics (CLI)........................................................................................... 82
Chapter 4 Power Over Ethernet (PoE/PoE+) Operation..............................84
Introduction to PoE.................................................................................................................................. 84
PoE terminology............................................................................................................................84
Planning and implementing a PoE configuration..................................................................................... 84
Power requirements...................................................................................................................... 84
Assigning PoE ports to VLANs......................................................................................................85
Applying security features to PoE configurations..........................................................................85
Assigning priority policies to PoE traffic........................................................................................ 85
PoE Event Log messages.............................................................................................................85
About PoE operation................................................................................................................................85
Configuration options.................................................................................................................... 86
PD support.................................................................................................................................... 86
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