Nortel Networks 2500 Series Switch User Manual


 
Enabling flow control 241
Table 100
flowcontrol command parameters and variables
Parameters and
variables
Description
port <portlist>
Specifies the port numbers to configure for flow
control.
ATTENTION
If you omit this parameter, the system uses the port
number you specified in the interface command.
asymmetric|
symmetric|
auto|disable
Sets the mode for flow control:
asymmetric—enables the local port to perform flow
control on the remote port
symmetric—enables the local port to perform flow
control
auto—sets the port to automatically determine the
flow control mode (default)
disable—disables flow control on the port
no flowcontrol command
The no flowcontrol command is used only on Gigabit Ethernet ports
and disables flow control. The syntax for the no flowcontrol command
is:
no flowcontrol [port <portlist>]
The no flowcontrol command is executed in the Interface Configuration
command mode.
Table 101 "no flowcontrol command parameters and variables" (page
242) describes the parameters and variables for the no flowcontrol
command.
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series
Overview — System Configuration
NN47215-500 (323162-B) 02.02 Standard
4.1 19 November 2007
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