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Explanation | A 48-bit Ethernet MAC address specified for a port. This address is used as the default source MAC field in the header of generated traffic for the port, and is also used for support of the ARP protocol. |
Summary | set and get, value type: HHHHHH |
Parameters | hexdata: hex bytes, specifying the six bytes of the MAC address. |
Example, set or get: | 0/3 P_MACADDRESS 0x001122AABBCC |
Explanation | The interval between sending out training packets, allowing a switch to learn the port’s MAC address. Layer-2 switches configure themselves automatically by detecting the source MAC addresses of packets received on each port. If a port only receives, and does not itself transmit test traffic, then the switch will never learn its MAC address. Also, if transmission is very rare the switch will age-out the learned MAC address. By setting the auto-train interval you instruct the port to send switch training packets, independent of whether the port is transmitting test traffic. |
Summary | set and get, value type: I |
Parameters | interval: integer, specifying the number of seconds between training packets. 0, disable training packets. |
Example, set or get: | 0/3 P_AUTOTAIN 60 |
Explanation | Whether a port responds to incoming Ethernet PAUSE frames, by holding back outgoing traffic. |
Summary | set and get, value type: B |
Parameters | onoff: coded byte, whether PAUSE response is enabled: [ OFF | ON ] |
Example, set or get: | 0/0 P_PAUSE OFF |
Explanation | This setting control whether a port responds to incoming Ethernet Priority Flow Control (PFC) frames, by holding back outgoing traffic for that priority. |
Summary | set and get, value type: Array of B |
Parameters | onoff-array: Array of coded bytes, one for each priority value (0 – 7), each byte indicating whether PFC response is enabled for that priority: [ OFF | ON ] |
Example, set or get: | 0/0 P_PFCENABLE OFF OFF OFF ON ON ON ON OFF |
Explanation | The gap-start and gap-stop criteria for the port’s gap monitor.The gap monitor expects a steady stream of incoming packets, and detects larger-than-allowed gaps between them. Once a gap event is encountered it requires a certain number of consequtive packets below the threshold to end the event. |
Summary | set and get, value type: I,I |
Parameters | start: integer, the maximum allowed gap between packets, in microseconds. (0 – 134.000 microseconds) 0 = disable gap monitor. stop:integer, the minimum number of good packets required. (0 – 1024 packets) 0 = disable gap monitor. |
Example, set or get: | 0/3 P_GAPMONITOR 1000 5 |