Configuration Guide User guide

FastIron Configuration Guide 41
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Basic port parameter configuration
To assign a name to a port.
Brocade(config)# interface ethernet 2
Brocade(config-if-e1000-2)# port-name Marsha
Syntax: port-name <text>
The <text> parameter is an alphanumeric string. The name can be up to 64 characters long. The
name can contain blanks. You do not need to use quotation marks around the string, even when it
contains blanks.
Port speed and duplex mode modification
The Gigabit Ethernet copper ports are designed to auto-sense and auto-negotiate the speed and
duplex mode of the connected device. If the attached device does not support this operation, you
can manually enter the port speed to operate at either 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps. The default and
recommended setting is 10/100/1000 auto-sense.
NOTE
You can modify the port speed of copper ports only; this feature does not apply to fiber ports.
NOTE
For optimal link operation, copper ports on devices that do not support 803.3u must be configured
with like parameters, such as speed (10,100,1000), duplex (half, full), MDI/MDIX, and Flow Control.
Port speed and duplex mode configuration syntax
The following commands change the port speed of copper interface 8 on a FastIron from the
default of 10/100/1000 auto-sense, to 100 Mbps operating in full-duplex mode.
Brocade(config)# interface ethernet 8
Brocade(config-if-e1000-8)# speed-duplex 100-full
Syntax: speed-duplex <value>
where <value> can be one of the following:
• 10-full – 10 Mbps, full duplex
• 10-half – 10 Mbps, half duplex
• 100-full – 100 Mbps, full duplex
• 100-half – 100 Mbps, half duplex
• 1000-full-master – 1 Gbps, full duplex master
• 1000-full-slave – 1 Gbps, full duplex slave
• auto – auto-negotiation
The default is auto (auto-negotiation).
Use the no form of the command to restore the default.
NOTE
On FastIron devices, when setting the speed and duplex-mode of an interface to 1000-full, configure
one side of the link as master (1000-full-master) and the other side as slave (1000-full-slave).