Motorola CAJUN P880 - Manual (Page 44)

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Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Gigabit Ports
To configure ports on a gigabit module:
1. In the System Configuration section of the Web Agent
window, select Modules & Ports. The Module Information
dialog box opens.
2. In the Ports column, click the number (2 or 4 for gigabit
modules) for the module you want to configure. The Physical
Port Configuration dialog box opens.
3. Click the Enable check box to enable a port, or if the check box
is enabled, click the Enable check box if you want to disable the
port.
4. Click APPLY to save your settings, or CANCEL to restore
previous settings.
5. In the Name field, click the port name to set additional
parameters. The Detailed Physical Port Configuration dialog box
opens.
Refer to Table 9 for more information on the Gigabit port
parameters.
6. In the Name field, enter a port name.
7. If this is an end-station port, from the Category pull-down
menu, select User Port. For trunk ports, select Service Port.
8. From the Flow Control Mode pull-down menu, select Enable
to use flow control to prevent buffer overflows. Disable this
feature only when flow control is causing congestion in other
areas of the network.
9. From the Pace Priority Mode pull-down menu, select Enable
to recognize and use 3Com’s PACE priority mechanism.
10. From the Remote Fault Detect pull-down menu, select
Enable to detect remote link errors.
Notes:
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The remote fault detection functionality should be
enabled (on both ends of a Cajun to Cajun link) in two
cases. The first case is when two Cajun gigabit ports are
connected that do not support auto-negotiation. The
second case is when a Cajun gigabit port that does not
support auto-negotiation is connected to a Cajun gigabit