Comparing physical port properties – Brocade Network Advisor SAN + IP User Manual v12.1.0 User Manual
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describes the properties of the VLAN View.
Comparing physical port properties
You can compare multiple physical port properties, for example, a healthy port with an offline port..
1. From Port View or Table View, select two or more ports (press Ctrl and click each port).
2. Right-click one of the selected ports, and select Properties.
FIGURE 516
Physical port properties
For example, in
Figure 516
, ports 3/1, 3/2, and 3/4 are selected. The selected port properties
display in the Port Properties dialog box and the order of port selection is also retained, as shown
in
Figure 517
.
TABLE 125
VLAN View - port properties
Field/Component
Description
Identifier
The identifier of the port.
Name
The name of the VLAN or port.
Type
The type of the port.
Port Mode
Indicates the tag mode of the port.
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Tagged represents the port is in dual mode but is in the tagged state for that
particular VLAN.
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Untagged represents the port is untagged for that particular VLAN.
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The third port mode is Dual mode.
QoS
The Quality of Service (QoS) to assign traffic priority (high, medium, or low) for a given
source and destination traffic flow.
STP Type
The type of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - STP, RSTP, and None.
STP Status
Indicates whether STP is enabled or disabled.
Virtual/Routing Interface The virtual routing interface number. You can add an IP address to the virtual routing
interface once the VLAN is deployed.
Path Cost
The STP cost of using the port to reach the root bridge.
Transparent VLAN
Flooding
The enabled or disabled status of transparent VLAN flooding. Enabled status allows
the packets to be forwarded without any form of CPU intervention including MAC
learning and MAC destination lookups.
Port Priority
The preference that STP gives this port relative to other ports for forwarding traffic out
of the spanning tree.
Role
The role of the port. Possible values include the following roles:
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MCT
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ICL