Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 6: Port Parameters

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Section I: Basic Operations

other ports to discard packets destined for port D. Port A drops the D
packets, enabling it to once again forward packets to port C.

The number that you enter for this value represents cells. A cell is 128
bytes. The range is 0 to 8191 cells. The default is 682.

To set up head of line blocking, perform the following procedure:

1. From the Main Menu, type 1 to select Port Configuration.

The Port Configuration menu is shown in Figure 25 on page 102.

2. From the Port Configuration menu, type 1 to select Port Configuration.

The following prompt is displayed:

Enter port-list ->

3. Enter the number of the port you want to configure. To configure a

range of ports, enter the first and last ports of the range, separated by
a dash (for example, 4-8). You cannot specify nonconsecutive ports
(for example, 5,7,9)

The Port Configuration menu is shown in Figure 26 on page 103.

4. From the Port Configuration menu, type 2 to select HOL BLocking

Prevention Threshold.

The following prompt is displayed:

Enter HOL Blocking Prevention Threshold (128 byte cells)
: [1 to 8191] -> 682

5. Enter the threshold in cells. A cell equals 128 bytes. The range is 1 to

8191 cells and the default is 682.

6. After making changes, type R until you return to the Main Menu. Then

type S to select Save Configuration Changes.

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