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ServerIron ADX Administration Guide 85
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Additional system management functions
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Assigning a port name
To assign a name to an interface, which provides additional identification for a segment on the
network, enter commands such as the following.
ServerIronADX(config)# interface e 1
ServerIronADX(config-if-1)# port-name marketing-funk
Syntax: [no] port-name <text>
Modifying port speed and duplex mode
You can modify the port speed and duplex mode for 10BaseT and 100BaseTx ports.
Gigabit (1000BaseSx and 1000BaseLx) and 100BaseFx ports operate at a fixed speed and mode
(full-duplex) and cannot be modified.
To modify the port speed and duplex mode for a 10BaseT or 100BaseTx port, enter commands
such as the following.
ServerIronADX(config)# interface e8
ServerIronADX(config-if-8)# speed-duplex 10-full
Syntax: [no] speed-duplex <value>
The <value> parameter can be 10-full, 10-half, 100-full, 100-half, or auto. The default is 10/100
auto.
Enabling a mirror port
You can enable and assign a specific port to operate as a mirror port for other ports on a ServerIron
ADX, by using the mirror-port ethernet command. Once enabled, you can connect an external
traffic analyzer to the port for traffic analysis.
You also need to enable the monitor command on a port for it to be mirrored by this port.
To assign port 1 as the mirror port and port 5 as the port to be monitored, enter commands such
as the following.
ServerIronADX(config)# mirror-port e 1/1
ServerIronADX(config)# interface e 5/2
ServerIronADX(config-if)# monitor both
Syntax: [no] mirror-port ethernet <portnum>
Syntax: [no] monitor input | output | both
Use monitor input | output | both to select a port to be diagnosed by a designated mirror port. You
can configure incoming, outgoing or both incoming and outgoing traffic to be monitored on the
port.
ServerIronADX(config)# int e 2/1
ServerIronADX(config-if-e100-2/1)# monitor ethernet 2/1 ?
both Both incoming and outgoing packets
input Incoming packets
output Outgoing packets