Avaya P880 Switch User Manual


 
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Chapter 5
Cajun P550/P880/P882 Switch User Guide
11. Select one of the following from the Flow Control Mode
field pull down men:
Enable – Sets flow control to prevent buffer overflows.
Disable – Disables flow control when it is causing
congestion in other areas of the network.
Enable (with Aggressive Backoff) – Limits the size of flow
control burst on TX and FX ports.
12. Select Enable from the Auto Negotiation Mode field pull
down menu to enable Auto Negotiation.
*Note: This feature is only available for 10/100 TX
modules.
Auto Negotiation works best when the port or
device on the other end of the connection
is also set to Auto Negotiation. If you are having
problems with Auto Negotiating connections,
manually set the modes using the CLI. See the
Cajun P550/P200 Command Line Interface
Reference Guide for more information.
13. Select a speed from the Auto Negotiation Speed
Advertisement pull- down menu. The options are 10Mbps,
100Mbps. or 10/100Mbps.
14. Select a duplex option from the Autonegotiation Duplex
Advertisement field pull-down menu. The options are
Full/Half Duplex and Half Duplex).
*Note: The Speed and Duplex features are only available
for 10/100 TX modules.
The switch sends the Speed and Duplex
advertisement values to the device on the other
end of the connection at the start of the auto-
negotiating process. In general, the defaults are
best, but there may be situations when you want
to fix one setting, but allow the other setting to
auto-negotiate.