3Com 3500 - Manual (Page 220)

220 C HAPTER 7: E THERNET P ORTS
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ethernet portState Enables or disables Ethernet ports, controlling whether the ports send or
receive frames.
Valid Minimum Abbreviation
e ports
Important Consideration
■
When an Ethernet port is enabled , frames are transmitted normally
over that port. When an Ethernet port is
disabled
, the port neither
sends nor receives frames.
Options
Procedure
1 To enable or disable an Ethernet port, from the top level of the
Administration Console, enter:
ethernet portState
2 At the prompt (for example, (1-24|all|?)
), enter the ports whose port
state values you want to set, or to display a port summary, specify ?
3 Enter
enabled
or
disabled
for each Ethernet port.
The
portState
value shown in the summary and detail displays reports
on-line for all enabled ports that are displayed and off-line for all
disabled ports. The Port Status LED for each disabled port on the module
indicates the disabled status.
Prompt Description Possible Values [Default]
Port Ports that you want to enable
or disable
■
Individual ports
■
A range of port
numbers
■
all
■
? (to display a
port summary)
–
Port state Value shown in the summary
and detail displays reports:
on-line for all enabled ports
displayed and off-line for
all disabled ports displayed
■
enabled
■
disabled
enabled