Disabling or re-enabling flow control, Auto-negotiation and advertisement of flow control – Brocade TurboIron 24X Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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Configuring basic port parameters

TurboIron(config)#interface e 8

TurboIron(config-if-e10000-8)#disable

Syntax: disable

You also can disable or re-enable a virtual interface. To do so, enter commands such as the
following.

TurboIron(config)#interface ve v1

TurboIron(config-vif-1)#disable

Syntax: disable

To re-enable a virtual interface, enter the enable command at the Interface configuration level. For
example, to re-enable virtual interface v1, enter the following command.

TurboIron(config-vif-1)#enable

Syntax: enable

Disabling or re-enabling flow control

You can configure full-duplex ports on a system to operate with or without flow control (802.3x).
Flow control is enabled by default.

To disable flow control on full-duplex ports on a system, enter the following.

TurboIron(config)#no flow-control

To turn the feature back on.

TurboIron(config)#flow-control

Syntax: [no] flow-control

NOTE

For optimal link operation, link ports on devices that do not support 803.3u must be configured with
like parameters, such as speed (10,100,1000), duplex (half, full), and Flow Control.

Auto-negotiation and advertisement of flow control

Auto-negotiation of flow control can be enabled and advertised for 10/100/1000M ports. To
enable and advertise flow control capability, enter the following commands.

TurboIron(config)#interface ethernet 21

TurboIron(config-if-e10000-21)#flow-control

To also enable auto-negotiation of flow control, enter the following commands.

TurboIron(config)#interface ethernet 21

TurboIron(config-if-e10000-21)#flow-control neg-on

Syntax: #[no] flow-control [neg-on]

flow-control [default] - Enable flow control, advertise flow control and disable negotiation of
flow control

flow-control neg-on - Advertise flow control and enable negotiation of flow control

no flow-control - Disable flow control, disable advertising flow control and also disable
negotiation of flow control

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