HP VPN Firewall Appliances Network Management Configuration Guide

Hardware Com

atibilit

F1000-A-EI/F1000-S-EI Yes

F1000-E Yes

F5000 Yes

F5000-S/F5000-C No

VPN firewall modules Yes

20-Gbps VPN firewall moduless Yes

Overview

A combo interface is a logical interface that comprises one fiber port and one copper port. The two ports

share one forwarding channel and one interface view, so they cannot work simultaneously. When you

enable one port, the other port is automatically disabled.

The fiber combo port and the copper combo port share one interface view, in which you can activate the

fiber or copper combo port, and configure other port attributes such as the interface rate and duplex

mode.

Configuration prerequisites

Before you configure combo interfaces, complete the following tasks:

• Determine the combo interfaces on your device by checking the product specifications and identify

the two physical interfaces that compose each combo interface.

• Use the display interface command to determine whether the fiber port or copper port of the combo

interface is active. If the current port is the copper port, the output includes "Media type is twisted

pair, Port hardware type is 1000_BASE_T." If the current port is the fiber port, the output does not

contain the information mentioned above. You can use the display this command in combo

interface view to determine whether the fiber port or copper port of the combo interface is active.

If the combo enable fiber command exists in the output, the fiber port is active. Otherwise, the

copper port is active.

Changing the active port of a combo interface

Ste

Command

Remarks

1. Enter system view.

system-view N/A

2. Enter Ethernet interface view.

interface interface-type

interface-number

N/A

3. Activate the copper combo

port or fiber combo port.

combo enable { copper | fiber }

By default, the copper combo port

is active.

Configuring basic settings of an Ethernet interface or

subinterface

Configuring an Ethernet interface

You can set an Ethernet interface to operate in one of these duplex modes:

• Full-duplex mode (full)—Interfaces that operate in this mode can send and receive packets

simultaneously.