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Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switch User Guide, v5.3.1
Setting Summer Time Hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Setting Recurring Summer Time Hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Setting One-Time Summer Time Hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
Setting the System Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Setting the Temperature System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Displaying the Power System Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Displaying Cooling System Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Performing a Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
Chapter 4 — Using VLANs, Spanning Tree, Hunt Groups, and VTP
Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
VLAN Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
What is a VLAN? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Ingress Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Forwarding Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Egress Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Creating and Implementing VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
VLAN Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Creating a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Configuring VLAN Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Assigning Ports to VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Spanning Tree Protocol Setup and Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Spanning Tree Protocol Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Managing the Spanning Tree Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Disabling Spanning Tree Mode for the Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
Using Hunt Groups to Aggregate Bandwidth between Switches 4-28
Hunt Group Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29
How Hunt Groups Load Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30
Hunt Group Configuration Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-35
Creating Hunt Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-36
Adding Ports to the Hunt Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-37
Viewing Hunt Group Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-42
Removing Ports from Hunt Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-43
Configuring VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP) Snooping . . . . . . . . . . 4-44
Chapter 5 — Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Two Categories of Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Physical Port Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Switch Port Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Relationship Between Different Switch Port Parameters. . . . 5-6
Assigning VLANs to a Port and Associated Issues . . . . . . . . 5-10
Configuring Physical Port Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Gigabit Ports . . . . 5-12
Configuring Physical Port Parameters on Fast Ethernet Ports5-17