Disabling / Enabling and Naming Ports
5-6 Port Configuration
Disabling / Enabling and Naming Ports
Purpose
Todisableandre‐enableoneormoreports,andtoassignanaliastoaport.Bydefault,allportsare
enabledatdevicestartup.Youmaywanttodisableportsforsecurityortotroubleshootnetwork
issues.Portsmayalsobeassignedanaliasforconvenience.
Commands
set port disable
Usethiscommandtoadministrativelydisableoneormoreports.Whenthiscommandis
executed,inadditiontodisablingthephysicalEthernetlink,theportwillnolongerlearnentries
intheforwardingdatabase.
Syntax
set port disable port-string
Parameters
Defaults
None.
Mode
Switchcommand,read‐write.
Example
Thisexampleshowshowtodisablege.1.1:
B3(su)->set port disable ge.1.1
set port enable
Usethiscommandtoadministrativelyenableoneormoreports.
Syntax
set port enable port-string
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set port disable 5-6
set port enable 5-6
show port alias 5-7
set port alias 5-7
port‐string Specifiestheport(s)todisable.Foradetaileddescriptionofpossibleport‐
stringvalues,referto“PortStringSyntaxUsedintheCLI”onpage5‐1.