Command Reference Line Commands
Use this command to configure the flow control mode for the async line. Use the no form of this
command to restore the default setting.
flowcontrol { hardware | none | software }
no flowcontrol { hardware | none | software }
Configures hardware flow control.
Configures no flow control.
Configures software flow control.
No flow control is configured by default.
This command is used to control the data sending rate to make it consistent with the receiving rate at
the receiving end. The terminal cannot receive data while sending data, so this function prevent s
data drop. Flow control is also configured for the communication between high speed device and low
speed device (for example, printer and network interface). RGOS provides two flow control modes,
namely, software flow control and hardware flow control. The stop and start characters are Ctrl+S
( XOFF, ASCII: 19) and Ctrl+Q (XON, ASCII: 17) respectively.
The following example configures software flow control for the async line.
Ruijie(config)#line console 0
Ruijie(config-line)#flowcontrol software