Negotiation – Dell PowerEdge M805 User Manual

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Ethernet Configuration Commands

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Command Mode

Interface Configuration (Ethernet) mode

User Guidelines

The value set allows an additional four bytes for the VLAN tag.

Example

The following example of the mtu command increases maximum packet size to 9216 bytes.

console(config-if-1/g5)#mtu 9216

negotiation

Use the negotiation command in Interface Configuration

mode to enable auto-negotiation

operation for the speed and duplex parameters of a given interface. To disable negotiation, use the
no form of this command.

Syntax

negotiation [capability1 [capability2…capability5]]

no negotiation

capabilities—Specifies capabilities to advertise.
(Possible values: 10h, 10f, 100h, 100f and 1000f)

Default Configuration

If unspecified, defaults to list of all capabilities of the port.

Command Mode

Interface Configuration (Ethernet) mode

User Guidelines

Entering the command negotiation with no parameters enables all capabilities. Note that if
you have previously entered negotiation with capabilities, this action overwrites the previous
configuration so that all capabilities are enabled.

Example

The following example enables auto negotiations on gigabit Ethernet port 5 of unit 1.

console(config)#interface ethernet 1/g5

console(config-if-1/g5)#negotiation

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