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Managing interface ports – Nortel Networks 5500 series User Manual

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Configuring system settings

where

port

is an integer in the range 1 to 4 indicating the port number

of the physical port on the Nortel SNAS. The port number is the number
identifying the port on the back of the Nortel SNAS.

The Host Port menu appears.

The Host Port menu includes the following options:

/cfg/sys/host #/port

followed by:

autoneg on|off

Specifies the Ethernet auto-negotiation setting for the
host and NIC port. The options are:

on

—the port is set to auto-negotiate speed and

mode. This is the recommended setting.

off

—speed and mode are fixed at a specified

setting.

The default is

on

.

When auto-negotiation is on, ensure that the
device to which the port is connected is also set to
auto-negotiate.

speed

Sets the speed for the host and NIC port when
auto-negotiation is set to

off

.

speed

—the port speed in megabits per second.

The options are

10|100|1000

.

mode full|half

Sets the duplex mode for the host and NIC port when
auto-negotiation is set to

off

. The options are

full

and

half

.

The default duplex mode is

full

.

Managing interface ports

To view and manage the ports assigned to an interface, use the following
command:

/cfg/sys/host #/interface /ports

where

interface ID

is an integer in the range 1 to 252 that

uniquely identifies the interface on the Nortel
SNAS host.

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch

Using the Command Line Interface

NN47230-100

03.01

Standard

28 July 2008

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